Chronic Wasting Disease Research in North America: A systematic review highlighting species-wise and interdisciplinary research trends.

ABSTRACT: Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) research has experienced significant growth, spanning diverse disciplines such as genetics, immunology, modelling, and behaviour. To gain a broad understanding of the changes in CWD research focusing cervids, we analysed temporal trends in study location, species, genus investigated, infection types, and population type since the discovery of CWD in 1980s. Our findings indicate that Colorado, USA, published the highest number of articles, followed by Wisconsin, and publication numbers correlated with reported CWD cases in states/provinces. Odocoileus emerged as the most studied genus. Wild populations are studied more commonly than captive populations. Keyword analysis of transmission types shows the discovery of novel transmission modes in the recent p

SUBMITTER: Rg C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11834482 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature