NR AUXT
AU anonym
AK Direcção de Serviços de Informação e Análise, Direcção-Geral da Saúde, Lisboa, Portugal
TI First probable case of vCJD reported in Portugal
QU Euro Surveillance : Bulletin Europeen sur les Maladies Transmissibles = European Communicable Disease Bulletin 2005 Jun 23; 10(6): E050623.4
IA http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ew/2005/050623.asp#4
PT journal article
VT
The Portuguese Direcção-Geral da Saúde (Directorate-Genearl for Health) was recently informed of the first probable case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in Portugal, with laboratory evidence (tonsil biopsy) [1]. The patient is 12 year old boy currently living with his parents and receiving specialist medical care. The case meets the European and Allied Countries Collaborative Study Group of CJD's (EUROCJD) definition of probable vCJD (http://www.eurocjd.ed.ac.uk/def.htm) and has been confirmed by the United Kingdom's National CJD Surveillance Unit. The patient does not have a history of travel to the United Kingdom.
References:
1. Direcção-Geral da Saúde. Variante da Doença de Creutzfeldt-Jakob - Comunicado. Press release, 9 June 2005. (http://www.dgsaude.pt/upload/membro.id/ficheiros/i007107.pdf)
MH Child; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/*diagnosis/*epidemiology; Disease Outbreaks/statistics & numerical data; Humans; Incidence; Male; *Population Surveillance; Portugal/epidemiology; Risk Assessment/*methods; Risk Factors; Travel
SP englisch
PO Frankreich