Immunization with a synthetic peptide vaccine fails to protect mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) from chronic wasting disease

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 694-698

  Pilon, John L ^a,f   Rhyan, Jack C ^b   Wolfe, Lisa L ^c   Davis, Tracy R ^c   McCollum, Matt P ^b   O'Rourke, Katherine I ^d   Spraker, Terry R ^e   VerCauteren, Kurt C ^a   Miller, Michael W ^c   Gidlewski, Thomas ^a   Nichols, Tracy A ^a   Miller, Lowell A ^a   Nol, Pauline ^b  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife ^*  (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^f CETYA Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervid; Chronic wasting disease; Mule deer; Prion; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT VACCINE; SUBUNIT VACCINE; VACCINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CERVID; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; DEER; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MULE DEER; PALATINE TONSIL; PATHOLOGY; PRION; RECTUM; VACCINATION; WILD ANIMAL; ZOO ANIMAL;

CERVID; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; MULE DEER; PRION; VACCINE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANIMALS, ZOO; DEER; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; PALATINE TONSIL; RECTUM; VACCINATION; VACCINES, SUBUNIT; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS;

EID: 84879174515     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/2012-07-200     Document Type: Article

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