TY - JOUR
T1 - Surveillance for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Australia
T2 - update to December 2012
AU - Klug, Genevieve M.
AU - Boyd, Alison
AU - Zhao, Teresa
AU - Stehmann, Christiane
AU - Simpson, Marion
AU - McLean, Catriona A.
AU - Masters, Colin L.
AU - Collins, Steven J.
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PY - 2013/6/1
Y1 - 2013/6/1
N2 - Nation-wide surveillance for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is undertaken by the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Registry (ANCJDR), based at the University of Melbourne. Surveillance has been undertaken since 1993. During this period the unit has evolved and adapted to changes in surveillance practices and requirements, the emergence of new disease subtypes, improvements in diagnostic capabilities and the overall heightened awareness and understanding of CJD and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in the health care setting. In 2012, routine surveillance continued. This brief report provides an update on the surveillance data collected by the ANCJDR prospectively from 1993 to December 2012, and retrospectively to 1970. It also highlights the recent release of the revised Australian CJD Infection Control Guidelines.
AB - Nation-wide surveillance for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is undertaken by the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Registry (ANCJDR), based at the University of Melbourne. Surveillance has been undertaken since 1993. During this period the unit has evolved and adapted to changes in surveillance practices and requirements, the emergence of new disease subtypes, improvements in diagnostic capabilities and the overall heightened awareness and understanding of CJD and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in the health care setting. In 2012, routine surveillance continued. This brief report provides an update on the surveillance data collected by the ANCJDR prospectively from 1993 to December 2012, and retrospectively to 1970. It also highlights the recent release of the revised Australian CJD Infection Control Guidelines.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84928587139
M3 - Article
C2 - 24168084
AN - SCOPUS:84928587139
SN - 1447-4514
VL - 37
SP - e115-e120
JO - Communicable Diseases Intelligence
JF - Communicable Diseases Intelligence
IS - 2
ER -