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Transmissible dementias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

E. Jane Byrne  and
J. Lowe
E. Jane Byrne
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH
J. Lowe
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue 2 , August 1991 , pp. 291 - 292
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Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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