Research Catalog

Title

WHO guidelines on tissue infectivity distribution in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies / World Health Organization.

Publication

Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

World Health Organization.

Description

vi, 53 pages; 30 cm

Summary

These guidelines provide evidence-based information to national regulatory authorities, especially to those where Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has not yet been reported and where surveillance systems for BSE and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human disease caused by infection with the BSE agent, may not be in place. The information is intended to assist in conducting risk assessments and selecting measures to reduce the risk of transmitting vCJD by human blood and blood products and other medicinal products of biological origin collectively called biologicals.--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Prion diseases > Epidemiology
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
• Scrapie
• Blood > Transfusion > Standards
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease > Epidemiology
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease > Epidemiology > Guideline
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease > Prevention
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease > Prevention > Guideline
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease > Transmission > Guideline
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy > pathology
• Prion diseases > Prevention
• Prion diseases > Prevention > Guideline
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease > Transmission
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome > transmission
• Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform > pathology
• Blood Transfusion > standards
• Prion Diseases > prevention & control
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
• Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform
• Scrapie
• Doença de príon
• Encefalopatia espongiforme bovina (transmissão)
• Transfusão de sangue

Genre/Form

Guideline

Note

• "The Guidelines on Tissue Infectivity Distribution in Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies were developed by compiling the information provided at the WHO Consultation on Tissue Infectivity Distribution in Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies that took place at WHO, Geneva, on 14-16 September 2005." -- p. 68

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

Review of scientific developments. Epidemiology, clinical features and diagnostic criteria of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) -- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and scrapie -- Diagnosis -- Risk of transmitting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and variant CJD (vCJD) by human blood and blood products -- Recommendations. Tissue infectivity -- Measures to minimize risks to humans from biological and pharmaceutical products in which ruminant materials are used during manufacture -- Measures to minimize risks to humans form human-derived materials.

ISBN

• 9789241547017
• 9241547014

OCLC

• ocm77523333
• 77523333
• SCSB-1416219

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library