Chronic wasting disease in Europe: new strains on the horizon

Chronic wasting disease in Europe: new strains on the horizon

Abstract Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders with known natural occurrence in humans and a few other mammalian species. The diseases are experimentally transmissible, and the agent is derived from the host-encoded cellular prion protein (PrPC), which is misfolded into a pathogenic c...

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Main Authors: Michael Andreas Tranulis, Dolores Gavier-Widén, Jørn Våge, Maria Nöremark, Sirkka-Liisa Korpenfelt, Maria Hautaniemi, Laura Pirisinu, Romolo Nonno, Sylvie Lafond Benestad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-11-01
Series:Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
Subjects:
CWD
Deer
Fennoscandia
Moose
Nordic countries
Prion disease
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13028-021-00606-x

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13028-021-00606-x

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