| analysis for space-time clustering of cjd cases, kentucky, 1988-1997. | creutzfeldt-jakob disease (cjd) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of humans. it can be transmitted iatrogenically or inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. however, most cases (85%) of the disease are sporadic, occurring stochastically in approximately one person per million population. in 1996, a new, neuropathologically distinct variant of cjd was recognized in a group of unusually young patients who had apparently been infected by exposure to the agent of bovine spongiform encep ... | 2004 | 15125303 |