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Chronic wasting disease.
Topics in current chemistry - 1 Jan 2011
Gilch Sabine, Chitoor Nandini, Taguchi Yuzuru, Stuart Melissa, Jewell Jean E, Schätzl Hermann M
Abstract excerpt
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease of free-ranging and farmed ungulates (deer, elk, and moose) in North America and South Korea. First described by the late E.S. Williams and colleagues in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming in the 1970s, CWD has increased tremendously both in numerical and geographical distribution, reaching prevalence rates as high as 50% in free-ranging and >90% in captive...
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