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...

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Published in:Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
Main Authors: Tranulis, Michael Andreas, Gavier-Widén, Dolores, Våge, Jørn, Nöremark, Maria, Korpenfelt, Sirkka-Liisa, Hautaniemi, Maria, Pirisinu, Laura, Nonno, Romolo, Benestad, Sylvie Lafond
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Language:English
Published: 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