The importance of ongoing international surveillance for Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

N Watson, JP Brandel, A Green, P Hermann… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a rapidly progressive, fatal and transmissible
neurodegenerative disease associated with the accumulation of misfolded prion protein in …

Evidence for zoonotic potential of ovine scrapie prions

H Cassard, JM Torres, C Lacroux, JY Douet… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract Although Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is the cause of variant
Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) in humans, the zoonotic potential of scrapie prions …

Sheep and goat BSE propagate more efficiently than cattle BSE in human PrP transgenic mice

D Padilla, V Béringue, JC Espinosa… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
A new variant of Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease (vCJD) was identified in humans and linked to
the consumption of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)-infected meat products …

Atypical/Nor98 scrapie infectivity in sheep peripheral tissues

O Andreoletti, L Orge, SL Benestad, V Beringue… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Atypical/Nor98 scrapie was first identified in 1998 in Norway. It is now considered as a
worldwide disease of small ruminants and currently represents a significant part of the …

Preclinical detection of variant CJD and BSE prions in blood

C Lacroux, E Comoy, M Moudjou… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The emergence of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD) is considered a likely
consequence of human dietary exposure to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) …

Insight from animals resistant to prion diseases: Deciphering the genotype–morphotype–phenotype code for the prion protein

R Myers, A Cembran… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Prion diseases are a group of neurodegenerative diseases endemic in humans and several
ruminants caused by the misfolding of native prion protein (PrP) into pathological …

Evidence for preexisting prion substrain diversity in a biologically cloned prion strain

T Gunnels, RA Shikiya, TC York, AJ Block… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Prion diseases are a group of inevitably fatal neurodegenerative disorders affecting
numerous mammalian species, including Sapiens. Prions are composed of PrPSc, the …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids

EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ)… - EFSA …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In April and May of 2016, Norway confirmed two cases of chronic wasting disease
(CWD) in a wild reindeer and a wild moose, respectively. In the light of this emerging issue …

Classical BSE prions emerge from asymptomatic pigs challenged with atypical/Nor98 scrapie

B Marín, A Otero, S Lugan, JC Espinosa… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Pigs are susceptible to infection with the classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (C-
BSE) agent following experimental inoculation, and PrPSc accumulation was detected in …

Dogs are resistant to prion infection, due to the presence of aspartic or glutamic acid at position 163 of their prion protein

E Vidal, N Fernández‐Borges, H Eraña… - The FASEB …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Unlike other species, prion disease has never been described in dogs even though they
were similarly exposed to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agent. This …