Intranasal Inoculation of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) with Lyophilized Chronic Wasting Disease Prion Particulate Complexed to Montmorillonite Clay

• Tracy A. Nichols ,

  * 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

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• Terry R. Spraker,

  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

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• Tara D. Rigg,

  Affiliation National Wildlife Research Center, US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Crystal Meyerett-Reid,

  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

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• Clare Hoover,

  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

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• Brady Michel,

  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

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• Jifeng Bian,

  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

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• Edward Hoover,

  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

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• Thomas Gidlewski,

  Affiliation National Wildlife Research Center, US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Aru Balachandran,

  Affiliation National and OIE Reference Laboratory for scrapie and chronic wasting disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Katherine O'Rourke,

  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

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• Glenn C. Telling,

  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

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• Richard Bowen,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Mark D. Zabel ,

  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

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• Kurt C. VerCauteren

  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

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