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- Title
CorrespondenceUniversal leucodepletion to reduce potential risk of transmission of new-variant creutzfeld–jakob disease.
- Authors
Turner, Marc
- Abstract
Comments on an article by Sivakumaran concerning compliance for the universal leucodepletion policy to reduce the potential transmission of a variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD). Discussion on whether the distribution of normal prion protein correlates with abnormal isoform in variant CJD; Clinical manifestations of patients with variant CJD; Effectiveness of the universal leucodepletion policy as a precautionary measure for CJD transmission.
- Subjects
BLOOD transfusion; CREUTZFELDT-Jakob disease; PRION disease diagnosis; INFECTIOUS disease transmission
- Publication
British Journal of Haematology, 2000, Vol 110, Issue 3, p745
- ISSN
0007-1048
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.02239-3.x