ArticleScientific reports2017
Clay content and pH: soil characteristic associations with the persistent presence of chronic wasting disease in northern Illinois.
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- White-tailed deer scavenging community in a chronic wasting disease-endemic region and considerations for prion movement.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Modeling chronic wasting disease transmission risk in mule deer related to habitat characteristics.PloS one · 2026Article
- Detection of chronic wasting disease prions in soil at an illegal white-tailed deer carcass disposal site.Prion · 2025Article
- Predicting chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer at the county scale using machine learning.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Spatiotemporal occupancy patterns of chronic wasting disease.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Article
- Movement of Chronic Wasting Disease Prions in Prairie, Boreal and Alpine Soils.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Evaluating the ability of a locally focused culling program in removing chronic wasting disease infected free-ranging white-tailed deer in Illinois, USA, 2003-2020.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2022Article
- No evidence of uptake or propagation of reindeer CWD prions in environmentally exposed sheep.Acta veterinaria Scandinavica · 2022Article
- Review on PRNP genetics and susceptibility to chronic wasting disease of Cervidae.Veterinary research · 2021Review
- Long-Term Incubation PrPPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Chronic Wasting Disease In Cervids: Prevalence, Impact And Management Strategies.Veterinary medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Environmental reservoirs are important to infectious disease transmission and persistence, but empirical analyses are relatively few. The natural environment is a reservoir for prions that cause chronic wasting disease (CWD) and influences the risk of transmission to susceptible cervids. Soil is one environmental component demonstrated to affect prion infectivity and persistence. Here we provide the first landscape predictive model for CWD based solely on soil characteristics. We built a boosted regression tree model to predict the probability of the persistent presence of CWD in a region of northern Illinois using CWD surveillance in deer and soils data. We evaluated the outcome for possible pathways by which soil characteristics may increase the probability of CWD transmission via environmental contamination. Soil clay content and pH were the most important predictive soil characteristics of the persistent presence of CWD. The results suggest that exposure to prions in the environment is greater where percent clay is less than 18% and soil pH is greater than 6.6. These characteristics could alter availability of prions immobilized in soil and contribute to the environmental risk factors involved in the epidemiological complexity of CWD infection in natural populations of white-tailed deer.
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