Biomarker-based diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Authors: Peter Hermann, MD; Brian Appleby, MD; Jean-Philippe Brandel; Byron Caughey, PhD; Steven Collins, MD; Michael Geschwind;Alison Green, PhD; Gabor Kovacs, MD, PhD; Anna Ladogana, MD; Franc Llorens, PhD; Simon Mead; Suvankar Pal, MD; Piero Parchi, MD, PhD; Maurizio Pocchiari; Katsuya Satoh, MD; Gianluigi Zanusso, ; Inga Zerr, MD National Reference Center for TSE, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Pathology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, USA Australian National Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Registry, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia. National CJD Research & Surveillance Unit, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Toronto, Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease (CRND) and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Laboratory Medicine Program, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy Network center for biomedical research of neurodegenerative diseases (CIBERNED), Institute Carlos III, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. IRCCS, Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine (DIMES), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Department of Locomotive Rehabilitation Science, Unit of Rehabilitation Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Göttingen, Germany