Influence of timing on CSF tests value for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease diagnosis.

"We thank all physicians in the participating countries for sending us the cerebrospinal fluid and blood samples and for providing pertinent clinical and neuropathological data on those patients. We thank Jolanthe Zellner for her coordinative work and Esther Croes for database management at the initial stages of the project. The collaborative study was funded by grants from the European Commission (EC) (QLG3-CT-2002-81606 to I. Zerr). The national studies were supported in Greece by the Greek Ministry of Health, through KEEL (Center for Control of Infectious Diseases), in Italy by the Ministry of Health and the Instituto Superiore di Sanità, in the Netherlands by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports, in Slovakia by Ministry of Health and European Commission (SEEC-CJD project), in Spain by a grant from the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (MCyT EET 2001/2216) and Spanish Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, grant number DGVI 1312/04-1, in Switzerland by Bundesamt für Gesundheit, Bern (NRPE-BAG contracts no 03.001297 and np 04.002363), in United Kingdom by the Department of Health and the Scottish Home Office Department of Health and in Germany by the Bundesministerium für Gesundheit und Soziale Sicherung (BMGS) (GZ: 325-4471-02/15) and by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) (KZ: 0312720 and 01GI0301 to I.Z). Raquel Sanchez-Valle is a recipient of a post-residency grant from Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. Pascual Sanchez-Juan was supported by the postMIR grant Wenceslao Lopez Albo from the IFIMAV Institute of the Fundación Pública Marqués de Valdecilla."