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A simulation-based approach to strengthen chronic wasting disease surveillance in captive cervid populations. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Captive cervid facilities are at elevated risk for chronic wasting disease (CWD) due to high deer densities, close animal contact, environmental contamination, and frequent movement of deer between facilities and across regions.
Lauren Wakefield, Alan Cain, Chris Cerny, Hunter Reed, Aniruddha V Belsare   +4 more
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Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission Risk Assessment for Farmed Cervids in Minnesota and Wisconsin

Viruses, 2021
CWD (chronic wasting disease) has emerged as one of the most important diseases of cervids and continues to adversely affect farmed and wild cervid populations, despite control and preventive measures.
James M. Kincheloe, Amy R. Horn-Delzer, Dennis N. Makau, Scott J. Wells   +3 more
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Low STR variability in the threatened marsh deer, Blastocerus dichotomus, detected through amplicon sequencing in non-invasive samples

Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2022
Blastocerus dichotomus is the largest deer in South America. We have used 25 microsatellite markers detected and genotyped by Next Generation Sequencing to estimate the genetic variability of B.
Laura Irene Wolfenson, Gregory R. McCracken, Daniel E. Ruzzante, Patricia Mirol, Antonio Solé-Cava   +4 more
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Infection and transmission of ancestral SARS-CoV-2 and its alpha variant in pregnant white-tailed deer

Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2022
SARS-CoV-2 was first reported circulating in human populations in December 2019 and has since become a global pandemic. Recent history involving SARS-like coronavirus outbreaks have demonstrated the significant role of intermediate hosts in viral ...
Konner Cool, Natasha N. Gaudreault, Igor Morozov, Jessie D. Trujillo, David A. Meekins, Chester McDowell, Mariano Carossino, Dashzeveg Bold, Dana Mitzel, Taeyong Kwon, Velmurugan Balaraman, Daniel W. Madden, Bianca Libanori Artiaga, Roman M. Pogranichniy, Gleyder Roman-Sosa, Jamie Henningson, William C. Wilson, Udeni B. R. Balasuriya, Adolfo García-Sastre, Juergen A. Richt   +19 more
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Spatio-temporal analyses reveal infectious disease-driven selection in a free-ranging ungulate

Royal Society Open Science, 2021
Infectious diseases play an important role in wildlife population dynamics by altering individual fitness, but detecting disease-driven natural selection in free-ranging populations is difficult due to complex disease–host relationships.
Melanie E. F. LaCava, Jennifer L. Malmberg, William H. Edwards, Laura N. L. Johnson, Samantha E. Allen, Holly B. Ernest   +5 more
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Oral vaccination as a potential strategy to manage chronic wasting disease in wild cervid populations

Frontiers in Immunology, 2023
Prion diseases are a novel class of infectious disease based in the misfolding of the cellular prion protein (PrPC) into a pathological, self-propagating isoform (PrPSc).
Scott Napper, Scott Napper, Hermann M. Schatzl   +2 more
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Seminoma in a gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira) with unilateral cryptorchidism

Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Pathology, 2022
Cryptorchidism is the incomplete descent of the testes and associated structures, and cryptorchid testes are more likely to develop testicular neoplasms, such as seminoma.
Ayisa Rodrigues Oliveira, Daniel Oliveira dos Santos, Fernanda M. A. M. Pereira, Thaynara Parente de Carvalho, Izabela Magalhães Arthuso Vasconcelos, Lucas dos Reis de Souza, Laice Alves da Silva, Ana Beatriz Portes Gonçalves, Lauro L. S. Neto, Renato Lima Santos   +9 more
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Effects of Immunocastration and Amino Acid Supplementation on Yearling Fallow Deer (Dama dama) Testes Development

Animals, 2023
Forty-four fallow deer bucks (10 months old; 22.9 ± 2.4 kg) were utilized to investigate the effects of immunocastration and amino acid supplementation on testes development. Immunocastrated bucks were administered Improvac® at weeks 1, 8, and 20 of this
Thoniso Chitambala, Veit Ny, Francisco Ceacero, Luděk Bartoň, Daniel Bureš, Radim Kotrba, Tersia Needham   +6 more
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De Novo Generation of a Unique Cervid Prion Strain Using Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification

mSphere, 2017
Substantial evidence supports the hypothesis that prions are misfolded, infectious, insoluble, and protease-resistant proteins (PrPRES) devoid of instructional nucleic acid that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs).
Crystal Meyerett-Reid, A. Christy Wyckoff, Terry Spraker, Bruce Pulford, Heather Bender, Mark D. Zabel   +5 more
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Whole Genome Sequencing of Mycobacterium bovis Isolated From Livestock in the United States, 1989–2018

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018
The United States official bovine tuberculosis (bTB) eradication program has utilized genotyping for Mycobacterium bovis isolates since 2000 and whole genome sequencing was implemented in 2013.
Kathy Orloski, Suelee Robbe-Austerman, Tod Stuber, Bill Hench, Mark Schoenbaum   +4 more
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