About the Authors

Jifeng Bian

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC), the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Sehun Kim

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC), the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Sarah J. Kane

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC), the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Jenna Crowell

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC), the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Julianna L. Sun

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Prion Research Center (PRC), the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Jeffrey Christiansen

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC), the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Eri Saijo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC), the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Julie A. Moreno

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC), the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

James DiLisio

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC), the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Emily Burnett

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Prion Research Center (PRC), the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Sandra Pritzkow

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Mitchell Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Brain Disorders, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Damian Gorski

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Mitchell Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Brain Disorders, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Claudio Soto

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Mitchell Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Brain Disorders, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Terry J. Kreeger

Roles Resources

Affiliation Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Wheatland, Wyoming, United States of America

Aru Balachandran

Roles Resources

Affiliation Canadian Food Inspection Agency, National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Scrapie and CWD, Ottawa, Canada

Gordon Mitchell

Roles Resources

Affiliation Canadian Food Inspection Agency, National and OIE Reference Laboratory for Scrapie and CWD, Ottawa, Canada

Michael W. Miller

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Romolo Nonno

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

Affiliation Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Department of Veterinary Public Health, Nutrition and Food Safety, Rome, Italy

Turid Vikøren

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Norwegian Veterinary Institute, OIE Reference laboratory for CWD, Oslo, Norway

Jørn Våge

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Norwegian Veterinary Institute, OIE Reference laboratory for CWD, Oslo, Norway

Knut Madslien

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Norwegian Veterinary Institute, OIE Reference laboratory for CWD, Oslo, Norway

Linh Tran

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Norwegian Veterinary Institute, OIE Reference laboratory for CWD, Oslo, Norway

Tram Thu Vuong

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Norwegian Veterinary Institute, OIE Reference laboratory for CWD, Oslo, Norway

Sylvie L. Benestad

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Norwegian Veterinary Institute, OIE Reference laboratory for CWD, Oslo, Norway

Glenn C. Telling

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

glenn.telling@colostate.edu

Affiliations Prion Research Center (PRC), the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CS is a Founder, Chief Scientific Officer and Member of the Board of Directors of Amprion Inc, a biotechnology company that focuses on the commercial use of PMCA and RT-QuIC for high-sensitivity detection of misfolded protein aggregates including prion diseases. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has licensed patents and patent applications to Amprion. The remaining authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest with the contents of this article.