Large-scale survey of prion protein genetic variability in scrapie disease-free goats from the United States

• Mohamed Zeineldin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, IA, United States of America, Department of Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, Benha, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3318-1210

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• Kimberly Lehman,

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

  Affiliation National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, IA, United States of America

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• Natalie Urie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Animal Health Monitoring System, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America, Department of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

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• Matthew Branan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Animal Health Monitoring System, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

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• Alyson Wiedenheft,

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

  Affiliations National Animal Health Monitoring System, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America, Department of Clinical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

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• Katherine Marshall,

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

  Affiliation National Animal Health Monitoring System, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

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• Suelee Robbe-Austerman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, IA, United States of America

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• Tyler Thacker

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tyler.thacker@usda.gov

  Affiliation National Veterinary Services Laboratories, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, IA, United States of America

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