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Molecular genealogy tools for white-tailed deer with chronic wasting disease.

Faecal CWD prion excretion and inflammation.

Experimental oral transmission of chronic wasting disease to red deer (Cervus elaphus elaphus): early detection and late stage distribution of protease-resistant prion protein.

Increased risk of chronic wasting disease in Rocky Mountain elk associated with decreased magnesium and increased manganese in brain tissue.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) susceptibility of several North American rodents that are sympatric with cervid CWD epidemics.

Iron content of ferritin modulates its uptake by intestinal epithelium: implications for co-transport of prions

Impact of age and sex of Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) on follicle counts from rectal mucosal biopsies for preclinical detection of chronic wasting disease.

Space-time Bayesian survival modeling of chronic wasting disease in deer.

Detection of protease-resistant cervid prion protein in water from a CWD-endemic area.

Spatial and temporal patterns of chronic wasting disease: fine-scale mapping of a wildlife epidemic in Wisconsin.

Cryptic peptides of the kringle domains preferentially bind to disease-associated prion protein.

Antemortem detection of PrPCWD in preclinical, ranch-raised Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) by biopsy of the rectal mucosa.

Wasting and neurologic signs in a white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) not associated with abnormal prion protein.

Chronic wasting disease in a Wisconsin white-tailed deer farm.

Experimental chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the ferret.

Experimental transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) of elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni), white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) to white-tailed deer by intracerebral route.

PrP genotypes of free-ranging wapiti (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) with chronic wasting disease.

Prion interference with multiple prion isolates.

A species barrier limits transmission of chronic wasting disease to mink (Mustela vison).

The elk PRNP codon 132 polymorphism controls cervid and scrapie prion propagation.