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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5547
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-26
pubmed:abstractText
The size of the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) epidemic in the United Kingdom is a major public health concern and a subject of speculation. The cases are young (mean age = 28). Assuming that the risk of developing the disease in susceptible exposed subjects decreases exponentially with age after age 15, that all infections occurred between 1980 and 1989, and that the distribution of the incubation period is lognormal, we estimate that the mean duration of the incubation period is 16.7 years [95% confidence interval (CI): 12.4 to 23.2] and that the total number of cases will be 205 (upper limit of the 95% CI: 403).
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0036-8075
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
23
pubmed:volume
294
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1726-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-3-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Age Distribution, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Age of Onset, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Child, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Disease Susceptibility, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Great Britain, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Incidence, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Models, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Prevalence, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Probability, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Risk, pubmed-meshheading:11721058-Time Factors
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Estimation of epidemic size and incubation time based on age characteristics of vCJD in the United Kingdom.
pubmed:affiliation
Epidemiology and Information Sciences, INSERM U444, CHU Saint-Antoine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie et Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 27 rue Chaligny, 75012 Paris, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article