USGS Fact Sheet 2007-3059

Chronic Wasting Disease Positive Tissue Bank

By Scott D. Wright

U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2007-3059, 1 page (Published July 2007)

This report is available online in PDF format: FS 2007-3059 () (202 KB)

In 2005, the USGS National Wildlife Health Center entered into an agreement with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and the Department of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Wyoming to produce a collection of positive tissues from cervids intentionally infected with chronic wasting disease. This agreement was facilitated through the University of Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit.

The purpose of this project is to make the collection available for researchers to use as a positive control for detection assays, infectivity studies, or to test newly developed assays.

Also, the investigators on this project sampled the animals incrementally over 2 years to show changes over time, and examined tissues from the animals by immunohistochemistry. CWD positive tissues are catalogued by species, sample site and time of infection. These data and more will soon be published.

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