Bureau of Communicable Disease

Information for Health Care Providers:
Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (CJD)

FAQ on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies:
a group of fatal degenerative diseases that affect the central nervous system and can occur in humans and certain animal species. The most common TSE among humans is Creutzfeld-Jacob-Disease (CJD).

CJD Surveillance Letters

• Diagnosis and Reporting of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Including Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (PDF)
• 2004 Health Update #5: Surveillance for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies including the Classic and Variant Forms of Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease, in New York City (PDF)

2005 Conference on CJD in NYC Presentation Slides

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• Investigational Therapeutics in CJD (PDF)
• Clinical Generalities of TSE and CJD (PDF)
• CJD Pathology and Diagnostic Markers (PDF)
• Clinical Presentation: Creutzfeld-Jacob-Disease, Subacute Spongiform Encephalopathies (Prionopathies) (PDF)
• Evaluation of Suspected Cluster of CJD in New Jersey (PDF)
• Surveillance of CJD in New York State: A Team Approach (PDF)
• Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease Surveillance: Findings in New York City, 2001-2003 (PDF)
• Epidemiology and Surveillance of Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease in the United States (PDF)

Sept 21, 2005 Meeting of The Association of Practitioners of Infection Control (APIC), New York City

• Dr. Paul Brown on Infection Control Measures for CJD (PDF)

Announcements for Clinical Trials at the University of California San Francisco

The posting of these announcements on the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene website is purely for the purpose of public and provider information and does not represent an endorsement or approval of this research by the Department or the City of New York.

• Development of Assay for Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease
• A Randomized, Double-blinded, Controlled Study of the Efficacy of Quinacrine in the Treatment of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Resources

• Information on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease For Funeral Home, Cemetery, And Crematory Practitioners NEW
• National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center
• Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease Foundation, Inc.