| are brazilian cervids at risk of prion diseases? | prion diseases are neurodegenerative fatal disorders that affect human and non-human mammals. chronic wasting disease (cwd) is a prion disease of cervids regarded as a public health problem in north america, and polymorphisms at specific codons in the prnp gene are associated with this disease. to assess the potential cwd susceptibility of south american free-ranging deer, the presence of these polymorphisms was examined in mazama gouazoubira, ozotoceros bezoarticus and blastocerus dichotomus. d ... | 2017 | 28281927 |