Diversified farming systems are proposed as a major mechanism to address the many
sustainability issues of today's agriculture. Multi-species livestock farming, ie kee** two or …

▪ Abstract Deer have expanded their range and increased dramatically in abundance
worldwide in recent decades. They inflict major economic losses in forestry, agriculture, and …

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are inevitably lethal neurodegenerative
diseases that affect humans and a large variety of animals. The infectious agent responsible …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a unique transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
(TSE) of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), white-tailed deer (O. virginianus), and Rocky …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has emerged as an important disease of wild and farmed
cervids in North America. Of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) that
affects members of the cervidae family. The infectious agent is a misfolded isoform (PrPSC) …

Infectious prion diseases—scrapie of sheep and chronic wasting disease (CWD) of several
species in the deer family,—are transmitted naturally within affected host populations …

Prions propagate as multiple strains in a wide variety of mammalian species. The detection
of all such strains by a single ultrasensitive assay such as Real Time Quaking-induced …

Key to understanding the epidemiology and pathogenesis of prion diseases, including
chronic wasting disease (CWD) of cervids, is determining the mode of transmission from one …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) of deer and elk is endemic in a tri-corner area of Colorado,
Wyoming, and Nebraska, and new foci of CWD have been detected in other parts of the …