Posts Tagged: Prion
Examination of the interaction between age-specific predation and chronic disease in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
May 5, 2022
The patterns of parasite infections in wildlife hosts often have an age component. For example, the prevalence of chronic infections tends to skew towards older individuals that have had a longer amount of time to be exposed (e.g. Heisey et … read more
Posted in CWD & Other Diseases, Resources | Tagged age structure, demography, healthy herds, infectious disease, matrix model, predator–prey, Prion, simulation
Reduction of Chronic Wasting Disease Prion Seeding Activity following Digestion by Mountain Lions
December 30, 2021
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible prion disease first observed in the 1960s in North America. This invariably fatal disease affects multiple cervid species in the wild and in captivity. In addition to the several known transmission pathways involving … read more
Posted in CWD & Other Diseases | Tagged chronic wasting disease, mountain lion, Prion, PrP, Puma concolor, RT-QuIC
Unraveling the key to the resistance of canids to prion diseases
March 6, 2020
One of the characteristics of prions is their ability to infect some species but not others and prion resistant species have been of special interest because of their potential in deciphering the determinants for susceptibility. Previously, we developed different in … read more
Posted in CWD & Other Diseases | Tagged canids, disease, PLOS, Prion, Wolf, wolves