Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Figure 1

Volume 11, Number 9, September 2005

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Death, United States

Ermias D. Belay,* James J. Sejvar,* Wun-Ju Shieh,* Steven T. Wiersma,† Wen-Quan Zou,‡ Pierluigi Gambetti,‡ Stephen Hunter,* Ryan A. Maddox,* Landis Crockett,† Sherif R. Zaki,* and Lawrence B. Schonberger*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, Florida, USA; and ‡Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA


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	Figure 1. Histopathologic changes in frontal cerebral cortex of the patient who died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United States. Marked astroglial reaction is shown, occasionally with relatively large florid plaques surrounded by vacuoles (arrow in inset) (hematoxylin and eosin stain, original magnification ×40).

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