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Biodetection of an odor signature in white-tailed deer associated with infection by chronic wasting disease prions
2024-04-28
Abstract excerpt
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has become a major concern among those involved in managing wild and captive cervid populations. CWD is a fatal, highly transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by an abnormally folded protein, called a prion. Prions are present in a number of tissues, including feces and urine in CWD infected animals, suggesting multiple modes of transmission, including animal-to-animal, enviro...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6dccb475-d847-5f85-807a-a3916963f662
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.04.24.590903
