Chronic wasting disease risk assessment in Portugal: analysis of variability and genetic structure of the Portuguese roe deer population

Among the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in cervids is now the rising concern in wildlife within Europe after the first case detected in Norway in 2016. CWD shows a notable horizontal transmission, affecting both free-ranging and captive cervids. Furthermore, several genetic variants in the Prion Protein (PRNP) gene coding sequence of the cervid were identified, which increase the susceptibility to the disease.

Keywords

Cervid Roe deer

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/8760

Citation

GONÇALVES-ANJO, Nuno [et al.] (2022) - Chronic wasting disease risk assessment in Portugal: analysis of variability and genetic structure of the Portuguese roe deer population. In ZERR, Inga (2022) - Prion 2022 conference abstracts: pushing the boundaries, Gottingen, 2022. Prion. Vol. 16, N.º. 1, p. 204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19336896.2022.2091286