ArticleEMBO reports2024
Nasal bots carry relevant titers of CWD prions in naturally infected white-tailed deer.
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- Digging into Soil: Effects of Soil Texture on RT-QuIC Performance for Environmental Prion Surveillance.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Proof-of-concept for an alternative prion detection method utilizing nanoparticle-enhanced, aptamer-template loop-mediated isothermal amplification.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- White-Tailed Deer Prion Protein Gene Variability Suggests Selection Against Chronic Wasting Disease in Canada's Prairies.Viruses · 2025Article
- Chronic wasting disease (CWD) prion detection in environmental and biological samples from a taxidermy site and nursing facility, and instruments used in surveillance activities.The Science of the total environment · 2025Article
- Detection of chronic wasting disease prions in the farm soil of the Republic of Korea.mSphere · 2025Article
- Distribution of chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in tissues from experimentally exposed coyotes (Canis latrans).PloS one · 2025Article
- Advancements in Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Prion Detection: Moving Beyond the Gold Standards.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2025Review
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Abstract
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease affecting farmed and free-ranging cervids. CWD is rapidly expanding across North America and its mechanisms of transmission are not completely understood. Considering that cervids are commonly afflicted by nasal bot flies, we tested the potential of these parasites to transmit CWD. Parasites collected from naturally infected white-tailed deer were evaluated for their prion content using the protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) technology and bioassays. Here, we describe PMCA seeding activity in nasal bot larvae collected from naturally infected, nonclinical deer. These parasites efficiently infect CWD-susceptible mice in ways suggestive of high infectivity titers. To further mimic environmental transmission, bot larvae homogenates were mixed with soils, and plants were grown on them. We show that both soils and plants exposed to CWD-infected bot homogenates displayed seeding activity by PMCA. This is the first report describing prion infectivity in a naturally occurring deer parasite. Our data also demonstrate that CWD prions contained in nasal bots interact with environmental components and may be relevant for disease transmission.
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