Comparison of conventional, amplification and bio-assay detection methods for a chronic wasting disease inoculum pool

• Erin McNulty,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1918-6207

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• Amy V. Nalls,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4710-112X

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• Samuel Mellentine,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Erin Hughes,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Laura Pulscher,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3996-5585

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• Edward A. Hoover,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Candace K. Mathiason

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: candace.mathiason@colostate.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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