Alfons M. Jakob
German physician
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description of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- In Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
…neurologists Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob. CJD is similar to other neurodegenerative diseases such as kuru, a human disorder, and scrapie, which occurs in sheep and goats. All three diseases are types of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, so called because of the characteristic spongelike pattern of neuronal destruction that…
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