Chronic Wasting Disease Drives Population Decline of White-Tailed Deer.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an invariably fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, and moose. Despite a 100% fatality rate, areas of high prevalence, and increasingly expanding geographic endemic areas, little is known about the population-level effect...

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Main Authors: David R Edmunds, Matthew J Kauffman, Brant A Schumaker, Frederick G Lindzey, Walter E Cook, Terry J Kreeger, Ronald G Grogan, Todd E Cornish
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5004924?pdf=render