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Susceptibilities of Nonhuman Primates to Chronic Wasting Disease

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, or prion disease, that affects deer, elk, and moose. Human susceptibility to CWD remains unproven despite likely exposure to CWD-infected cervids. We used 2 nonhuman primate species, cynomolgus macaques and squirrel monkeys,...

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Autores principales: Race, Brent, Meade-White, Kimberly D., Miller, Michael W., Barbian, Kent D., Rubenstein, Richard, LaFauci, Giuseppe, Cervenakova, Larisa, Favara, Cynthia, Gardner, Donald, Long, Dan, Parnell, Michael, Striebel, James, Priola, Suzette A., Ward, Anne, Williams, Elizabeth S., Race, Richard, Chesebro, Bruce
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19788803
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1509.090253