Francisca Bravo-Risi

Oct 9, 2024 | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Paulina Soto |Carlos Kramm |Nazaret Gamez |Francisca Bravo-Risi

AbstractChronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease affecting farmed and free-ranging cervids. CWD is rapidly expanding across North America and its mechanisms of transmission are not completely understood. Considering that cervids are commonly afflicted by nasal bot flies, we tested the potential of these parasites to transmit CWD.

Oct 9, 2024 | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Paulina Soto |Francisca Bravo-Risi |Rebeca Benavente |Stuart Siegfried Lichtenberg

AbstractChronic wasting disease (CWD) prions cause fatal neuropathies in farmed and free-ranging cervids. The deposition of prions in natural and humanmade environmental components has been implicated as a major mechanism mediating CWD spread in wild and captive populations. Prions can be deposited in the environment through excreta, tissues, and carcasses from pre-clinical and clinical animals.