Very low oral exposure to prions of brain or saliva origin can transmit chronic wasting disease

• Nathaniel D. Denkers ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nathaniel D. Denkers, Clare E. Hoover

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Prion Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Clare E. Hoover ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nathaniel D. Denkers, Clare E. Hoover

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation AstraZeneca Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Kristen A. Davenport,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3496-2454

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• Davin M. Henderson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Prion Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Erin E. McNulty,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Prion Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 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 Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Prion Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Candace K. Mathiason,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Prion Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Edward A. Hoover

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Edward.hoover@colostate.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Prion Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9656-2283

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