TY - GEN AU - Rábano, Alberto AU - Pedro-Cuesta, Jesus de AU - Mølbak, Kåre AU - Siden, Ake AU - Calero, Miguel AU - Laursen, Henning AU - EUROSURGYCJD Research Group PY - 2005 DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-5-9 SN - 1471-2458 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/7078 AB - BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies on the potential role of surgery in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease transmission have disclosed associations with history of specific surgical interventions or reported negative results. METHODS: Within the context of a... LA - eng PB - BioMed Central (BMC) KW - Case-Control Studies KW - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome KW - Cross Infection KW - Denmark KW - Finland KW - Humans KW - PrPSc Proteins KW - Registries KW - Risk Assessment KW - Risk Factors KW - Sterilization KW - Surgical Instruments KW - Surgical Procedures, Operative KW - Sweden KW - Tissue Culture Techniques KW - Equipment Contamination TI - Tissue classification for the epidemiological assessment of surgical transmission of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. A proposal on hypothetical risk levels TY - research article ER -