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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal neurodegenerative prion disease of deer, elk, and moose. The unique feature of CWD as a prion disease is its efficient transmission among cervids in nature. As with other prion ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), or prion disease, of free-ranging and farmed cervids (deer, elk and moose). CWD is the only TSE in a wildlife population, which was initially ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a naturally occurring, horizontally transmitted prion disease of cervids, including deer, elk and moose. Typical of all prion diseases, CWD is characterized by the forced conversion of the ...

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of diseases caused by an abnormal version, PrPRES, of the normal cellular host protein prion protein (Prnp) termed PrPC. Disease is fatal resulting in amyloid ...

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of infectious, neurodegenerative diseases affecting animals, including humans. Caused by misfolded proteins called prions, TSEs are characterized by a long, ...

Prions have been an enigma to researchers and agricultural producers alike since their inception. The timing and order of prion disease discovery can be attributed to the scrutiny of the prion protein-only hypothesis. The ...

Zoonotic diseases are often caused by viruses or bacteria, which adapt to new species with changes to their nucleic acid sequence. The etiologic agent of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), the prion, is a ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an invariably fatal prion disease affecting captive and free-ranging cervids, including white-tailed deer, mule deer, moose, elk and reindeer. Since the initial discovery of the disease in ...