Chronic wasting disease (CWD) risk assessment in Portugal : The genetic approach to study prion protein gene (PRNP) variability in Portuguese populations of three cervid species: red deer, fallow deer and roe deer.

• Author(s): Pereira, Jorge C. ; Gonçalves-Anjo, Nuno ; Bastos, Estela ; Rocha, Sara ; Figueira, Luís ; Matos, Ana Cristina ; Machado, Carla ; Silva, João ; Mendonça, Paula ; Carvalho, Paulo ; Tavares, Paula ; Lima, Carla ; Alves, Anabela ; Esteves, Alexandra ; Pinto, Maria de Lurdes ; Pires, Isabel ; Gama, Adelina ; Sargo, Roberto ; Silva, Filipe ; Seixas, Fernanda ; Pinto, Madalena Vieira ; Orge, Leonor ; Pires, Maria dos Anjos
• Date: 2022
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/8769
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
• Subject(s): Cervid; TSE; Europe; Prion protein gene
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco

Description

Among the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids is now the rising concern in wildlife within Europe, after the first case was detected in Norway in 2016, in a wild reindeer and until October 2021, a total of 34 cases were described in Norway, Sweden and Finland.