Asymptomatic deer excrete infectious prions in faeces

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7263, 2009, Pages 529-532

  Tamgüney, Gültekin ^a,b   Miller, Michael W ^c   Wolfe, Lisa L ^c   Sirochman, Tracey M ^c   Glidden, David V ^b   Palmer, Christina ^a   Lemus, Azucena ^a   Dearmond, Stephen J ^a   Prusiner, Stanley B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ASYMMETRIC COMPETITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INOCULATION; NEUROLOGY; PROTEIN; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEER; DEFECATION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HERD; INCIDENCE; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BRAIN; DEER; FECES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRPSC PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; MUS MUSCULUS; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 70349466511     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08289     Document Type: Article

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