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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Neuropathol. 2010 Nov 7;121(1):79–90. doi: 10.1007/s00401-010-0761-3

Table 1. Human Prion Diseases: General classification.

Form or Etiology Phenotype
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)?