About the Authors
- Gordon B. Mitchell
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Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Scrapie and CWD, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory – Fallowfield, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Christina J. Sigurdson
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Affiliations Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America
- Katherine I. O’Rourke
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Affiliation Animal Disease Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Pullman, Washington, United States of America
- James Algire
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Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Scrapie and CWD, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory – Fallowfield, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Noel P. Harrington
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Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Scrapie and CWD, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory – Fallowfield, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Ines Walther
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Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Scrapie and CWD, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory – Fallowfield, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Terry R. Spraker
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Affiliation Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Aru Balachandran
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* E-mail: Aru.Balachandran@inspection.gc.ca
Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Scrapie and CWD, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory – Fallowfield, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AB GBM. Performed the experiments: GBM CJS KIO JA NPH IW TRS. Analyzed the data: GBM CJS KIO NPH IW TRS AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJS KIO TRS AB. Wrote the paper: GBM CJS AB.