Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal, transmissible prion disease that affects captive
and free-ranging deer, elk, and moose. Although the zoonotic potential of CWD is …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease of free-ranging and farmed ungulates
(deer, elk, and moose) in North America and South Korea. First described by the late ES …

CWD is an emergent prion disease that now affects cervid species on three continents. CWD
is efficiently spread in wild and captive populations, likely through both direct animal contact …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that affects free-ranging and captive
cervids, including mule deer, white-tailed deer, Rocky Mountain elk and moose. CWD …

Prions are amyloid-forming proteins that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
through a process involving the templated conversion of the normal cellular prion protein …

The horizontal transmission of prion diseases has been well characterized in bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), chronic wasting disease (CWD) of deer and elk and …

Since chronic wasting disease (CWD) was first identified nearly 50 years ago in a captive
mule deer herd in the Rocky Mountains of the United States, it has slowly spread across …

Effective measures for controlling chronic wasting disease (CWD), a contagious prion
disease of cervids, remain elusive. We review theoretic relationships between predation and …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a geographically expanding prion disease of wild and
captive cervids in North America. Disease can be transmitted directly, animal to animal, or …

Background Prion diseases are irreversible infectious neurodegenerative diseases caused
by a contagious form of prion protein (PrPSc). Since chronic wasting disease (CWD) …