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Very low oral exposure to prions of brain or saliva origin can transmit chronic wasting disease

The minimum infectious dose required to induce CWD infection in cervids remains unknown, as does whether peripherally shed prions and/or multiple low dose exposures are important factors in CWD transmission. With the goal of better understand CWD infection in nature, we studied oral exposures of dee...

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Autores principales: Denkers, Nathaniel D., Hoover, Clare E., Davenport, Kristen A., Henderson, Davin M., McNulty, Erin E., Nalls, Amy V., Mathiason, Candace K., Hoover, Edward A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7446902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32817706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237410