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1 INTRODUCTION Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a deadly neurodegenerative illness that belongs to the family of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), sometimes referred to as “prion diseases”, and its annual incidence ranges from 1.0 to 1.4 per million in the United States.1 CJD is characterized by rapidly progressive dementia in older adults, with death typically occurring within 1 year of illness onset.2 In addition to rapidly progressive dementia, several characteristic...