Experimental Oronasal Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease Agent from White-Tailed Deer to Suffolk Sheep

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal prion disease of cervids. We examined host range of CWD by oronasally inoculating Suffolk sheep with brain homogenate from a CWD-positive white-tailed deer. Sixty months after inoculation, 1/7 sheep had immunoreactivity against the misfolded form of prion pr...

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Main Authors: Eric D. Cassmann, S. Jo Moore, Justin J. Greenlee
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2021
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CWD
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/11f9a890ba1346c78cc564c2c4ba0537
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