Chronic Wasting Disease Prions in Elk Antler Velvet

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a contagious, fatal prion disease of deer and elk that continues to emerge in new locations. To explore the means by which prions are transmitted with high efficiency among cervids, we examined prion infectivity in the apical skin layer covering the growing antler (a...

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Autores principales: Angers, Rachel C., Seward, Tanya S., Napier, Dana, Green, Michael, Hoover, Edward, Spraker, Terry, O’Rourke, Katherine, Balachandran, Aru, Telling, Glenn C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19402954
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1505.081458

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19402954
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1505.081458

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