Prion disease experts are concerned about spillover of chronic wasting disease into other species of wildlife, livestock and ...

The detection also ... Caused by a mutated protein called a prion, it is part of a family of diseases known as transmissible ...

Early detection ... Parish. CWD is a neurodegenerative disease of white-tailed deer and other members of the family Cervidae. It is caused by a prion, an infectious, misfolded protein particle ...

CWD plays by a unique set of disease rules and does not spread by the common modes of infection (bacteria or virus), but is transmitted by a corrupted prion, essentially a misfolded protein.

The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission is expanding the Chronic Wasting Disease Control Area in northeast central ...

CWD is a fatal neurological disease affecting deer and is caused by an infective protein (prion) that damages the animal’s nervous system. CWD is contagious to deer and can spread through deer-to-deer ...

The Kane research laboratory will focus on chronic wasting disease (CWD) and translate these findings to other protein misfolding diseases. As CWD continues to spread both locally and internationally, ...

Soto sees potential for PMCA as a sensitive tool for clinical detection of the presence of misfolded prion protein. “This is a cyclical process,” explains Soto, “and you can do as many ...

Further studies will be required to demonstrate the adaptability of the QUIC reaction to the detection of prions in other types of samples and to prion diseases of clinical and agricultural relevance.

CWD could already be transmitting to humans, according to experts who met to discuss the quickly spreading disease during an April 10 Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy seminar on ...