In infectious disease epidemiology, a sporadic disease is an infectious disease which occurs only infrequently, haphazardly, irregularly, or occasionally...
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that sporadic CJD can spread among people via normal contact or blood transfusions, although this is possible in variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Diagnosis...
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Fatal insomnia (redirect from Sporadic fatal insomnia)
heart rate. The sporadic form of the disease often presents with double vision. Prolonged constipation is common as well. As the disease progresses, the...
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that do not fit into any infinite family of groups Sporadic disease, any of several diseases Sporadic E propagation, an unusual form of radio propagation...
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Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. There are three main categories of CJD disease: sporadic CJD, hereditary CJD, and acquired CJD, with variant CJD being in the...
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Is the disease sporadic or inherited? Is there involvement of the upper motor neurons (UMN), the lower motor neurons (LMN), or both? Sporadic or acquired...
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ALS (redirect from Lou Gehrigs disease)
caregiver burden. It is not known what causes sporadic ALS, hence it is described as an idiopathic disease. Though its exact cause is unknown, genetic and...
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disease with 90% accuracy. Most cases of Alzheimer's are not familial, and so they are termed sporadic Alzheimer's disease. Of the cases of sporadic Alzheimer's...
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changes may also arise in advanced stages. Most cases of Parkinson's disease are sporadic, but a few contributing factors have been identified. Pathophysiology...
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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (redirect from Prion disease)
familial spongiform encephalopathy. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease itself has four main forms, the sporadic (sCJD), the hereditary/familial (fCJD), the iatrogenic...
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of kuru. The disease was therefore more prevalent among women and children. The epidemic likely started when a villager developed sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob...
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both as an inherited disease and sporadically. He noted that inherited retinoblastoma occurs at a younger age than the sporadic disease. In addition, the...
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necrotizing lymphadenitis, and necrotizing lymphadenitis. Kikuchi disease occurs sporadically in people with no family history of the condition. It was first...
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toxic Aβ protofibrils. Non-genetic risk factors for early onset sporadic Alzheimer's disease and other forms of early onset dementia are understudied. However...
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Huntington's disease (HD), also known as Huntington's chorea, is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that is mostly inherited. The earliest symptoms...
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Transmissible mink encephalopathy (category Mustelid diseases)
Transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) is a rare sporadic disease that affects the central nervous system of ranch-raised adult mink. It is a transmissible...
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transmissible North American form of the disease, but similar to the Norwegian variant of CWD, an atypical or sporadic form which occurs incidentally in individual...
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Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (redirect from LAM disease)
systemic disease that typically results in cystic lung destruction. It predominantly affects women, especially during childbearing years. The term sporadic LAM...
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Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (category Rare diseases)
(VPSPr) (formerly known as Protease Sensitive Prionopathy) is a sporadic prion protein disease first described in an abstract for a conference on prions in...
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Toxic shock syndrome (redirect from Tampon disease)
year. TSS was considered a sporadic disease that occurred in immunocompromised people. It was not a more well-known disease until the 1980s, when high-absorbency...
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Sporadic late-onset nemaline myopathy, or SLONM, is a very rare disease, one of the nemaline myopathies, causing loss of muscle bulk and weakness in the...
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Sickle cell disease (SCD), also simply called sickle cell, is a group of hemoglobin-related blood disorders that are typically inherited. The most common...
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Sporadic hemiplegic migraine (SHM) is a form of hemiplegic migraine headache isolated cases of which are observed. It is a rare disease. It is considered...
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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (redirect from Stoneman's Disease)
also called Münchmeyer disease or formerly myositis ossificans progressiva, is an extremely rare connective tissue disease in which fibrous connective...
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Nocardiosis (category Bacterial diseases)
of death Normally found in soil, these organisms cause occasional sporadic disease in humans and animals throughout the world. Another well publicized...
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Infantile cortical hyperostosis (redirect from Caffey disease)
and irritability. The disease may be present at birth or occur shortly thereafter. The cause is unknown. Both familial and sporadic forms occur. It is also...
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with Hirschsprung's disease[citation needed] The RET proto-oncogene accounts for the highest proportion of both familial and sporadic cases, with a wide...
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Prion (category Infectious diseases)
published in 2011. The majority of human prion diseases are classified as sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (sCJD). Genetic research has identified an association...
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IgA nephropathy (redirect from Berger's disease)
(IgAN), also known as Berger's disease (/bɛərˈʒeɪ/) (and variations), or synpharyngitic glomerulonephritis, is a disease of the kidney (or nephropathy)...
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prevent early onset disease in these contacts and usually is not recommended following sporadic cases of invasive meningococcal disease. Unlike developed...
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