Volume 11, Number 9, September 2005

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Death, United States

Ermias D. Belay,* James J. Sejvar,* Wun-Ju Shieh,* Steven T. Wiersma,† Wen-Quan Zou,‡ Pierluigi Gambetti,‡ Stephen Hunter,* Ryan A. Maddox,* Landis Crockett,† Sherif R. Zaki,* and Lawrence B. Schonberger*
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, Florida, USA; and ‡Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Figure 2. Immunohistochemical staining of cerebellar tissue of the patient who died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United States. Stained amyloid plaques are shown with surrounding deposits of abnormal prion protein (immunoalkaline phosphatase stain, naphthol fast red substrate with light hematoxylin counterstain; original magnification ×158).

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