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- Title
Heartbeat clue to diagnosing vCJD.
- Authors
Frantz, Simon
- Abstract
Reports on the discovery of a high-resolution electrocardiogram that can identify a unique heart rate-variability signature caused by the early stages of infections. Diagnosis of patients with variant Creutzfeldt-jakob disease (vCJD); Prediction of a bovine spongiform encephalopathy infection in cows; Reduction of the risk of blood supply contamination.
- Subjects
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; BOVINE spongiform encephalopathy; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Nature Medicine, 2002, Vol 8, Issue 5, p431
- ISSN
1078-8956
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nm0502-431a