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 …

Chronic wasting disease in Europe: new strains on the horizon

MA Tranulis, D Gavier-Widén, J Våge… - Acta Veterinaria …, 2021 - Springer
Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders with known natural occurrence in
humans and a few other mammalian species. The diseases are experimentally …

Detection of amyloid fibrils in Parkinson's disease using plasmonic chirality

J Kumar, H Eraña, E López-Martínez… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Amyloid fibrils, which are closely associated with various neurodegenerative diseases, are
the final products in many protein aggregation pathways. The identification of fibrils at low …

Chronic wasting disease of cervids: current knowledge and future perspectives

NJ Haley, EA Hoover - Annu. Rev. Anim. Biosci., 2015 - annualreviews.org
A naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of mule deer was first
reported in Colorado and Wyoming in 1967 and has since spread to other members of the …

[HTML][HTML] Prion disease in dromedary camels, Algeria

B Babelhadj, MA Di Bari, L Pirisinu… - Emerging infectious …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Prions cause fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative diseases, including Creutzfeldt-
Jakob disease in humans, scrapie in small ruminants, and bovine spongiform …

Studies in bank voles reveal strain differences between chronic wasting disease prions from Norway and North America

R Nonno, MA Di Bari, L Pirisinu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

Evidence that bank vole PrP is a universal acceptor for prions

JC Watts, K Giles, S Patel, A Oehler… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Bank voles are uniquely susceptible to a wide range of prion strains isolated from many
different species. To determine if this enhanced susceptibility to interspecies prion …

Adaptive selection of a prion strain conformer corresponding to established North American CWD during propagation of novel emergent Norwegian strains in mice …

J Bian, S Kim, SJ Kane, J Crowell, JL Sun… - Plos …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Prions are infectious proteins causing fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative diseases of
animals and humans. Replication involves template-directed refolding of host encoded prion …

Chronic wasting disease: a cervid prion infection looming to spillover

A Otero, CD Velásquez, J Aiken, D McKenzie - Veterinary Research, 2021 - Springer
The spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) during the last six decades has resulted in
cervid populations of North America where CWD has become enzootic. This insidious …

The molecular determinants of a universal prion acceptor

H Arshad, Z Patel, ZAM Al-Azzawi, G Amano, L Li… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
In prion diseases, the species barrier limits the transmission of prions from one species to
another. However, cross-species prion transmission is remarkably efficient in bank voles …