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Management of chronic wasting disease in ranched elk: conclusions from a longitudinal three-year study.
Prion - 1 Dec 2020
Haley N J, Henderson D M, Donner R, Wyckoff S, Merrett K, Tennant J, Hoover E A, Love D, Kline E, Lehmkuhl A D, Thomsen B V
Abstract excerpt
Chronic wasting disease is a fatal, horizontally transmissible prion disease of cervid species that has been reported in free-ranging and farmed animals in North America, Scandinavia, and Korea. Like other prion diseases, CWD susceptibility is partly dependent on the sequence of the prion protein encoded by the host's PRNP gene; it is unknown if variations in PRNP have any meaningful effects on other aspects of...
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