Interspecies Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease Prions to Squirrel Monkeys ( Saimiri sciureus )

Author:

Marsh Richard F.1,Kincaid Anthony E.2,Bessen Richard A.3,Bartz Jason C.4

Affiliation:

1. Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706

2. Department of Physical Therapy

3. Department of Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59718

4. Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178

Abstract

ABSTRACT Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an emerging prion disease of deer and elk. The risk of CWD transmission to humans following exposure to CWD-infected tissues is unknown. To assess the susceptibility of nonhuman primates to CWD, two squirrel monkeys were inoculated with brain tissue from a CWD-infected mule deer. The CWD-inoculated squirrel monkeys developed a progressive neurodegenerative disease and were euthanized at 31 and 34 months postinfection. Brain tissue from the CWD-infected squirrel monkeys contained the abnormal isoform of the prion protein, PrP-res, and displayed spongiform degeneration. This is the first reported transmission of CWD to primates.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology

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