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Volume 22, Number 12—December 2016

Horizontal Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease in Reindeer

S. Jo Moore, Robert Kunkle, M. Heather West Greenlee, Eric Nicholson, Jürgen Richt, Amir Hamir¹, W. Ray Waters, and Justin Greenlee

Author affiliations: US Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, USA (S.J. Moore, R. Kunkle, E. Nicholson, J. Richt, A. Hamir, W.R. Waters, J. Greenlee):; Iowa State University, Ames (M.H. West Greenlee)

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Animal data for reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus) in a study of transmission of CWD*

Group no./animal no.	Genotype codon					Infectivity source	Exposure route
Group no./animal no.	002	129	138	169	176	Infectivity source	Exposure route
1
1	MV	SG	NS	MV	NN	CWD^wtd	Intracranial
2	VV	GG	NN	VV	NN	CWD^wtd	Intracranial
3	VV	GG	NS	VV	ND	CWD^wtd	Intracranial
4	VV	GG	NS	VV	NN	CWD^wtd	Intracranial
5	MV	SG	SS	MV	ND	CWD^wtd	Intracranial
2
6	VV	GG	NN	VV	NN	CWD^elk	Intracranial
7	MV	SG	NS	MV	NN	CWD^elk	Intracranial
8	VV	GG	NS	VV	NN	CWD^elk	Intracranial
9	VV	GG	NS	VV	ND	CWD^elk	Intracranial
10	NA	SG	SS	MV	NN	CWD^elk	Intracranial
3
11	MV	SG	NS	MV	NN	CWD^md	Intracranial
12	VV	GG	NN	VV	NN	CWD^md	Intracranial
13	VV	GG	SS	VV	DD	CWD^md	Intracranial
14	MV	SG	SS	MV	NN	CWD^md	Intracranial
15	VV	GG	NS	VV	ND	CWD^md	Intracranial
4 direct
16	VV	GG	NN	VV	NN	Horizontal (CWD^wtd)	Cohoused with group 1
17	VV	GG	NN	VV	NN	Horizontal (CWD^wtd)	Cohoused with group 1
18	VV	GG	NN	VV	NN	Horizontal (CWD^wtd)	Cohoused with group 1
19	NA	SG	NS	MV	NN	Horizontal (CWD^wtd)	Cohoused with group 1
4 indirect
20	MM	SS	SS	MM	NN	Horizontal (CWD^md)	Housed adjacent to group 3
21	VV	GG	NN	VV	NN	Horizontal (CWD^md)	Housed adjacent to group 3
4 neg. controls
22	VV	GG	NS	VV	NN	NA	NA
23	MV	SG	SS	MV	NN	NA	NA

*CWD, chronic wasting disease; D, aspartic acid; G, glycine; horizontal, horizontal transmission; M, methionine; md, mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus); N, asparagine; NA, not applicable; neg., negative; S, serine; V, valine; wtd, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus).

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¹Deceased.

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Volume 22, Number 12—December 2016

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Horizontal Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease in Reindeer

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