| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - All three diseases are types of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, so called because of the characteristic spongelike pattern of neuronal destruction that leaves brain tissue filled with holes.Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseCauses and symptomsCJD, as well as other spongiform encephalopathies, is caused by an unusual pathogenic agent called a prion.
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