A single amino acid residue in bank vole prion protein drives permissiveness to Nor98/atypical scrapie and the emergence of multiple strain variants

• Laura Pirisinu,

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

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6548-8225

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• Michele Angelo Di Bari,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Claudia D’Agostino,

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

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

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• Ilaria Vanni,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Geraldina Riccardi,

  Roles Investigation

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

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• Stefano Marcon,

  Roles Investigation

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

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• Gabriele Vaccari,

  Roles Investigation

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

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• Barbara Chiappini,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Sylvie L. Benestad,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Ås, Norway

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• Umberto Agrimi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Romolo Nonno

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

  * E-mail: romolo.nonno@iss.it

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7556-1564

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