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. 1993 Mar;46(3):193–197. doi: 10.1136/jcp.46.3.193

How to tackle a possible Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease necropsy.

J E Bell 1, J W Ironside 1
PMCID: PMC501168  PMID: 8463410

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