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. 1997 Nov 15;157(10):1367–1370.

Is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease transmitted in blood? Is the absence of evidence of risk evidence of the absence of risk?

M N Ricketts
PMCID: PMC1228462  PMID: 9371066

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