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ReviewViruses2020

Exposure Risk of Chronic Wasting Disease in Humans.

Satish K Nemani, Jennifer L Myskiw, Lise Lamoureux, Stephanie A Booth, Valerie L Sim

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Review in Viruses, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Prion diseases: Lessons from historical outbreaks and potential emerging ones.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025
    Review
  3. Review
  4. Adaptation of the protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) technique for the screening of anti-prion compounds.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Satish K NemaniCentre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada.
Jennifer L MyskiwZoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens, Public Health Agency of Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Lise LamoureuxZoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens, Public Health Agency of Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Stephanie A BoothZoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens, Public Health Agency of Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada.
Valerie L SimCentre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0088-8666
Public Health Agency of Canada · CAUniversity of Alberta · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The majority of human prion diseases are sporadic, but acquired disease can occur, as seen with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) following consumption of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). With increasing rates of cervid chronic wasting disease (CWD), there is concern that a new form of human prion disease may arise. Currently, there is no evidence of transmission of CWD to humans, suggesting the presence of a strong species barrier; however, in vitro and in vivo studies on the zoonotic potential of CWD have yielded mixed results. The emergence of different CWD strains is also concerning, as different strains can have different abilities to cross species barriers. Given that venison consumption is common in areas where CWD rates are on the rise, increased rates of human exposure are inevitable. If CWD was to infect humans, it is unclear how it would present clinically; in vCJD, it was strain-typing of vCJD prions that proved the causal link to BSE. Therefore, the best way to screen for CWD in humans is to have thorough strain-typing of harvested cervids and human CJD cases so that we will be in a position to detect atypical strains or strain shifts within the human CJD population.

Indexed as

AnimalsGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansPolymorphism, GeneticPrion ProteinsRiskWasting Disease, ChronicZoonosesPrion ProteinsPRNP protein, human129M/V polymorphismbovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)chronic wasting disease (CWD)CWD prions (PrPCWD)PRNP polymorphismproteinase K resistant prion protein (PK-resPrP)sporadic CJDstrainsvariant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD)zoonotic potential

Identifiers

PMID33348562
PMCPMC7766630
OpenAlexW3111243114

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