Modeling routes of chronic wasting disease transmission: environmental prion persistence promotes deer population decline and extinction.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal disease of deer, elk, and moose transmitted through direct, animal-to-animal contact, and indirectly, via environmental contamination. Considerable attention has been paid to modeling direct transmission, but despite the fact that CWD prions can remain infect...

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Auteurs principaux: Emily S Almberg, Paul C Cross, Christopher J Johnson, Dennis M Heisey, Bryan J Richards
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/dd6b95d180d342ed8e915a80f1aee096
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