About the Authors
- Tracy A. Nichols
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* E-mail: tracy.a.nichols@aphis.usda.gov
Affiliation National Wildlife Research Center, US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Terry R. Spraker
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Affiliations Colorado State University Diagnostic Laboratory, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Prion Research Center and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University Prion Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Tara D. Rigg
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Affiliation National Wildlife Research Center, US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Crystal Meyerett-Reid
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Affiliation Prion Research Center and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University Prion Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Clare Hoover
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Affiliation Prion Research Center and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University Prion Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Brady Michel
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Affiliation Prion Research Center and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University Prion Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Jifeng Bian
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Affiliation Prion Research Center and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University Prion Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Edward Hoover
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Affiliation Prion Research Center and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University Prion Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Thomas Gidlewski
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Affiliation National Wildlife Research Center, US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Aru Balachandran
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Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for scrapie and chronic wasting disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Katherine O'Rourke
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Current address: Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America
Affiliation U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Pullman, Washington, United States of America
- Glenn C. Telling
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Affiliation Prion Research Center and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University Prion Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Richard Bowen
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Mark D. Zabel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mark D. Zabel, Kurt C. VerCauteren
Affiliation Prion Research Center and the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University Prion Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Kurt C. VerCauteren
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mark D. Zabel, Kurt C. VerCauteren
Affiliation National Wildlife Research Center, US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TAN TRS TG TR KV. Performed the experiments: TAN TRS TR KO JB MZ CMR CH BM RB. Analyzed the data: TAN JB KO GT MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TAN TRS AB KO GT RB MZ KV EH. Wrote the paper: TAN TRS TR KO JB MZ KV.