Prion-seeding activity in cerebrospinal fluid of deer with chronic wasting disease.

Prion-seeding activity in cerebrospinal fluid of deer with chronic wasting disease.

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, are a uniformly fatal family of neurodegenerative diseases in mammals that includes chronic wasting disease (CWD) of cervids. The early and ante-mortem identification of TSE-infected individuals using conventional western blotting...

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Main Authors: Nicholas J Haley, Alexandra Van de Motter, Scott Carver, Davin Henderson, Kristen Davenport, Davis M Seelig, Candace Mathiason, Edward Hoover
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3839929?pdf=render

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