Surveillance for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in scavengers of white-tailed deer carcasses in the chronic wasting disease area of wisconsin

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A: Current Issues

Volumn 72, Issue 17-18, 2009, Pages 1018-1024

  Jennelle, Christopher S ^a   Samuel, Michael D ^a   Nolden, Cherrie A ^a   Keane, Delwyn P ^b   Barr, Daniel J ^b   Johnson, Chad ^a   Vanderloo, Joshua P ^a   Aiken, Judd M ^a   Hamir, Amir N ^c   Hoover, Edward A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCASS; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; COYOTE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACCOON; SCAVENGER (ORGANISM); UNITED STATES; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHITE TAILED DEER; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BRAIN; DEER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MAMMAL; PRION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN;

CANIS LATRANS; CERVIDAE; DIDELPHIDAE; MAMMALIA; MUSTELA VISON; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; PROCYON;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DEER; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMALS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRIONS; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC; WISCONSIN;

EID: 69849108263     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287390903084249     Document Type: Article

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