The ecology of prions

M Zabel, A Ortega - Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) affects cervids and is the only known prion disease readily
transmitted among free-ranging wild animal populations in nature. The increasing spread …

Chronic wasting disease modeling: an overview

SN Winter, LE Escobar - Journal of wildlife diseases, 2020 - meridian.allenpress.com
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an infectious and fatal prion disease occurring in the
family Cervidae. To update the research community regarding the status quo of CWD …

Integer versus fractional order SEIR deterministic and stochastic models of measles

MR Islam, A Peace, D Medina, T Oraby - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we compare the performance between systems of ordinary and (Caputo)
fractional differential equations depicting the susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered …

[PDF][PDF] Solution of a dynamical memory effect COVID-19 infection system with leaky vaccination efficacy by non-singular kernel fractional derivatives

B Dhar, PK Gupta, M Sajid - Math. Biosci. Eng, 2022 - aimspress.com
In this paper, the recent trends of COVID-19 infection spread have been studied to explore
the advantages of leaky vaccination dynamics in SEVR (Susceptible Effected Vaccinated …

Modeling seasonal behavior changes and disease transmission with application to chronic wasting disease

T Oraby, O Vasilyeva, D Krewski, F Lutscher - Journal of theoretical biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Behavior and habitat of wildlife animals change seasonally according to environmental
conditions. Mathematical models need to represent this seasonality to be able to make …

Infectious disease and grouping patterns in mule deer

MF Mejía Salazar, C Waldner, J Stookey, TK Bollinger - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Infectious disease dynamics are determined, to a great extent, by the social structure of the
host. We evaluated sociality, or the tendency to form groups, in Rocky Mountain mule deer …

Use of environmental sites by mule deer: a proxy for relative risk of chronic wasting disease exposure and transmission

MF Mejía‐Salazar, CL Waldner, YT Hwang… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Prions that cause chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids can remain infective for years
outside the host. Infectious cervids shed prions for a long time, consequently depositing …

Effects of transmission pathways, immunological thresholds, and long-distance dispersal on infectious spread: chronic wasting disease case study

WJ McClure, J Powell - Theoretical Ecology, 2025 - Springer
A broad class of wildlife diseases is transmitted directly between individuals and indirectly
through the environment. When environmental transmission requires threshold exposure, as …

Modeling the Impact of Climate Change on Cervid Chronic Wasting Disease in Semi-Arid South Texas

MR Islam, U Bulut, TP Feria-Arroyo… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a spongiform encephalopathy disease caused by the
transmission of infectious prion agents. CWD is a fatal disease that affects wild and farmed …

[HTML][HTML] External intervention model with direct and indirect propagation behaviors on social media platforms

F Yin, X Tang, T Liang, Y Huang, J Wu - Mathematical Biosciences …, 2022 - aimspress.com
A significant distinction between the COVID-19 pandemic and previous pandemics is the
significant role of social media platforms in shaping public adherence to non-pharmaceutical …