Clinical Trend of the Week (January 7-13): Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
A new study out of Texas resulted in this week's top search term. Researchers at the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston reported a method of detection that would allow for noninvasive diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, as well as a means to identify contamination of donated blood. The method, which involves a protein misfolding cyclic amplification assay, had 100% specificity and sensitivity in blood samples from patients with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, also known as mad cow disease. Although further testing is needed, this process may allow for earlier diagnosis of a disease that can lay silent in the body, and no doubt resulted in the increase in searches on this subject.
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Cite this: Ryan Syrek. Clinical Trends for January 2017 - Medscape - Jan 06, 2017.
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