Stuart Siegfried Lichtenberg

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.

Jun 11, 2024 | pubs.usgs.gov | Kate Burgener |Stuart Siegfried Lichtenberg |Daniel Walsh |Heather N. Inzalaco

Prion diseases such as scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and chronic wasting disease (CWD) affect domesticated and wild herbivorous mammals. Animals afflicted with CWD, the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of cervids (deer, elk, and moose), shed prions into the environment, where they may persist and remain infectious for years. These environmental prions may remain in soil, be transported in surface waters, or assimilated into plants.

May 26, 2024 | mdpi.com | Stuart Siegfried Lichtenberg |Daniel Walsh |Kate Burgener |Heather N. Inzalaco

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