variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
MONDO:0007012Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease that is most commonly contracted after consuming meat from an animal suffering from bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0007012), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
1 name
Resolves to: variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Also called
- vCJD