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Volume 23, Number 6—June 2017
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in 2 Plasma Product Recipients, United Kingdom

Patrick Urwin, Kumar Thanigaikumar, James W. Ironside, Anna Molesworth, Richard S. Knight, Patricia E. Hewitt, Charlotte Llewelyn, Jan Mackenzie, and Robert G. WillComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Edinburgh Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (P. Urwin, J.W. Ironside, A. Molesworth, R.S. Knight, J. Mackenzie, R.G. Will); University Hospital Lewisham, London, UK (K. Thanigaikumar); National Health Service Blood and Transplant, London (P.E. Hewitt); National Health Service Blood and Transplant/Public Health England Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, UK (C. Llewelyn)

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Table 1

Selected characteristics of blood donors to the patient with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease described in case 1, United Kingdom, 2014*

Interval from transfusion to onset, y
 Component
 No. donors
 No. donors alive
 No. donors dead
3 RBC LD 4 4 0
6 RBC LD 6 6 0
7 RBC LD 19 19 0
9 RBC LD 3 3 0
10 RBC LD 4 4 0
12 Whole blood LD; RBC LD; platelets LD 2; 27; 42 2; 27; 41 0; 0; 1

*LD, leukodepleted; RBC, red blood cells. Median age of donors, 56 years (range 27–80 years).

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