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Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease or Prion Disease or Mad Cow ... - iSites

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Diagnosis:<br />

-Electroencephalography<br />

-MRI<br />

“Probable” CJD is based on the clinical symptoms.<br />

-Post-m<strong>or</strong>tem immunohistochemistry of PrP sc aggregates.<br />

-Biopsy of the tonsils and, in 30% of the cases, of skeletal muscles<br />

can confirm CDJ. Determination of protease-K resistant f<strong>or</strong>m PrP sc .

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