Estimating relative CWD susceptibility and disease progression in farmed whitetail deer with rare PRNP alleles
N. J. Haley, K. Merrett, A. J. Buros Stein, D. Simpson, A. Carlson, G. Mitchell, A. Staskevicius, T. Nichols, A. Lehmkuhl, B. Thomsen
The paper assesses CWD susceptibility and progression in farmed whitetail deer with rare PRNP alleles by analyzing infection status and disease stage in over 2100 deer.
bioRxiv · Oct 14, 2019Microbiology