Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders with known natural occurrence in
humans and a few other mammalian species. The diseases are experimentally …

The puma Puma concolor is the fourth largest wild felid and the most widespread native
terrestrial mammal of the Americas. We synthesised published literature documenting the …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a relentless epidemic disorder caused by infectious
prions that threatens the survival of cervid populations and raises increasing public health …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a cervid prion disease caused by the accumulation of an
infectious misfolded conformer (PrP Sc) of cellular prion protein (PrP C). It has been …

Bluetongue (BT) and epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) cases have increased
worldwide, causing significant economic loss to ruminant livestock production and …

Efforts to contain the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal, contagious prion
disease of cervids, would be aided by the availability of additional diagnostic tools. RT-QuIC …

Cervids are affected by a neurologic disease that is always fatal to individuals and has
population effects. This disease is called chronic wasting disease (CWD) and is caused by a …

Complex ecological and human‐influenced factors that are characteristic of chronic wasting
disease (CWD) have created substantial and unique challenges for effective management in …

Quantifying spatiotemporally explicit interactions within animal populations facilitates the
understanding of social structure and its relationship with ecological processes. Data from …

Continuing geographic spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) poses a serious threat to
the sustainable future of cervids and hunting in North America. Moreover, CWD has been …