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2007
Aiken, J.M., Pedersen, J.A., Johnson, C.J., Chappell, R.J., McKenzie, D.
Soil may serve as an environmental reservoir for prion infectivity and contribute to the horizontal transmission of prion diseases (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies [TSEs]) of sheep, deer, and elk. TSE infectivity can persist in soil for years, and we previously demonstrated that the...
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2006
Aiken, J.M., McKenzie, D., Schramm, P.T., Phillips, K.E., Johnson, C.J.
An unidentified environmental reservoir of infectivity contributes to the natural transmission of prion diseases (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies [TSEs]) in sheep, deer, and elk. Prion infectivity may enter soil environments via shedding from diseased animals and decomposition of...
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1983
States, J.C., Zhao, H-Z., Aiken, J.M., McKenzie, D.I., Dixon, G.H.
We have sequenced five different rainbow trout protamine genes plus their flanking regions. The genes are not clustered and do not contain intervening sequences. There is an extremely high degree of sequence conservation in the coding and 3' untranslated regions of the gene. Downstream sequences...
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Ultraviolet-ozone treatment reduces levels of disease-associated prion protein and prion infectivity
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Gilbert, P., Pedersen, J., McKenzie, D., Johnson, C.J., Aiken, J.M.
Background: Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by novel infectious agents referred to as prions. Prions appear to be composed primarily, if not exclusively, of a misfolded isoform of the cellular prion protein. TSE infectivity...