Hong Kong Training Portal on
Infection Control and Infectious Disease

Clinical Information and Management

• Diagnostic and prognostic value of human prion detection in cerebrospinal fluid. (2017 Jan).
• Specific clinical signs and symptoms are predictive of clinical course in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (2016 Sep)
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: updated diagnostic criteria, treatment algorithm, and the utility of brain biopsy. (2015 Nov).
• Detection of prion infection in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a blood-based assay. (2011 Feb 5).
• Pathogenesis and prevalence of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. (2006 Jan).

Epidemiology

• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a systematic review of global incidence, prevalence, infectivity, and incubation (2020 Jan)
• Epidemiological characteristics of human prion diseases (02 June 2016)
• Prion diseases. (2005 Oct 1).
• The public health impact of prion diseases. (2005 Apr 21).

Infection Control

• A practical approach to avoiding iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) from invasive instruments. (2015 Jul).
• Possible transmission of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by blood transfusion. (2004 Feb 7).
• Preclinical vCJD after blood transfusion in a PRNP codon 129 heterozygous patient. (2004 Aug 7).
• Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease at the millennium. (2000 Oct 24).

Chronic Wasting Disease

• Chronic wasting disease and potential transmission to humans. (2004 Jun).