A Landscape Epidemiological Approach for Predicting Chronic Wasting Disease: A Case Study in Virginia, US.

ABSTRACT: Many infectious diseases in wildlife occur under quantifiable landscape ecological patterns useful in facilitating epidemiological surveillance and management, though little is known about prion diseases. Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal prion disease of the deer family Cervidae, currently affects white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) populations in the Mid-Atlantic United States (US) and challenges wildlife veterinarians and disease ecologists from its unclear mechanisms and associations within landscapes, particularly in early phases of an outbreak when CWD detections are sparse. We aimed to provide guidance for wildlife disease management by identifying the extent to which CWD-positive cases can be reliably predicted from landscape conditions. Using the CWD outbreak in

SUBMITTER: Winter SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8421794 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature