Chronic wasting disease in Europe: new strains on the horizon
Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders with known natural occurrence in humans and a few other mammalian species. The diseases are experimentally transmissible, and the agent is derived from the host-encoded cellular prion protein (PrP(C)), which is misfolded into a pathogenic conforme...
Published in: | Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2021
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Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8613970/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34823556 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13028-021-00606-x |