Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance in Australia: update to December 2015

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  • Genevieve M Klug Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, The Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria
  • Alison Bod Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, The Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria
  • Shannon Sarros Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, The Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria
  • Christiane Stehmann Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, The Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria
  • Marion Simpson Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, The Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria
  • Catriona McLean Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, The Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria; The Alfred Hospital, Department of Anatomical Pathology, Melbourne Victoria
  • Colin L Masters Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, The Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria
  • Steven J Collins Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, The Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2016.40.40

Keywords:

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prion disease, transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, disease surveillance

Abstract

Nation-wide surveillance of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (also known as prion diseases), the most common being Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is performed by the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry, based at the University of Melbourne. Prospective surveillance has been undertaken since 1993 and over this dynamic period in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy research and understanding, the unit has evolved and adapted to changes in surveillance practices and requirements concomitant with the delineation of new disease subtypes, improvements in diagnostic capabilities and the overall heightened awareness of prion diseases in the health care setting. In 2015, routine national surveillance continued and this brief report provides an update of the cumulative surveillance data collected by the Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Registry prospectively from 1993 to December 2015, and retrospectively to 1970. Commun Dis Intell 2016;40(3):E368–E376.

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01/09/16

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Klug, Genevieve M, Alison Bod, Shannon Sarros, Christiane Stehmann, Marion Simpson, Catriona McLean, Colin L Masters, and Steven J Collins. 2016. “Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance in Australia: Update to December 2015”. Communicable Diseases Intelligence 40 (September):368-76. https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2016.40.40.

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