Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative disorders that affect humans and
ruminant species consumed by humans. Ruminant prion diseases include bovine …

Prion diseases are a group of neurodegenerative, transmissible, and fatal disorders that
affect several animal species. They are characterized by the conformational conversion of …

Prion diseases are transmissible protein misfolding disorders that occur in animals and
humans where the endogenous prion protein, PrPC, undergoes a conformational change …

Abstract The European Commission requested an analysis of the Chronic Wasting Disease
(CWD) monitoring programme in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia …

Prion diseases, including chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids, are fatal
neurodegenerative disorders caused by the misfolding of cellular prion proteins. CWD is …

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases comprise diseases with
different levels of contagiousness under natural conditions. The hypothesis has been raised …

Conservation reintroduction is an increasingly applied tool for population restoration. The
choice of source population is important from a conservation genetic perspective, but there …

Reindeer pastoralism is a widespread practise across Fennoscandia and Russia. An
outbreak of chronic wasting disease (CWD) among wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) poses …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is well known among cervids in North America.
Nevertheless, management faced different types and degrees of uncertainty when CWD was …

Chronic wasting disease is a fatal prion condition of cervids such as deer, elk, moose and
reindeer. Secretion and excretion of prion infectivity from North American cervids with this …