B cells and platelets harbor prion infectivity in the blood of deer infected with chronic wasting disease

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5097-5107

  Mathiason, Candace K ^a   Hayes Klug, Jeanette ^a   Hays, Sheila A ^a   Powers, Jenny ^b   Osborn, David A ^c   Dahmes, Sallie J ^d   Miller, Karl V ^c   Warren, Robert J ^c   Mason, Gary L ^a   Telling, Glenn C ^e   Young, Alan J ^f   Hoover, Edward A ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d WASCO Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOASSAY; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INOCULATION; LEUKOCYTE; MONOCYTE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DEER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRIONS; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC;

CERVIDAE; MUS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 77951489484     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02169-09     Document Type: Article

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