Epizootiology of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging cervids in Colorado and Wyoming

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 676-690

  Miller, Michael W ^a   Williams, Elizabeth S ^b   McCarty, Craig W ^c   Spraker, Terry R ^c   Kreeger, Terry J ^d   Larsen, Catherine T ^a   Tom Thorne, E ^d  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervus elaphus nelsoni; Chronic wasting disease; Epidemic modeling; Epizootiology (epidemiology); Mule deer; Odocoileus hemionus; Odocoileus virginianus; Prion; Rocky Mountain elk; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy; Wapiti; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEER; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PATHOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; WASTING SYNDROME; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; COLORADO; DEER; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; WASTING SYNDROME; WYOMING;

EID: 0034303243     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-36.4.676     Document Type: Article

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