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Iatrogenic transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

R. O. Weller
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 1989 , pp. 1 - 4
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