Table 1. Human Prion Diseases: General classification.
Form or Etiology | Phenotype |
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Acquired by infection | Kuru |
vCJD | |
Iatrogenic CJD | |
Familial | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
Fatal familial insomnia | |
Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker d. | |
Non specific or mixed phenotype | |
Sporadic | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (with five phenotypes) |
Fatal insomnia (FI) | |
Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr)? (with three phenotypes)? |