Chronic Wasting Disease Contamination of Deer Scrapes

Authors

Miranda H.J. Huang, Mississippi State UniversityFollow
Steve Demarais, Mississippi State University
Alejandro Banda, Mississippi State University
Bronson K. Strickland, Mississippi State University
Anna Grace Welch, Mississippi State University
Scoty Hearst, Mississippi College
Stuart Lichtenberg, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Allan Houston, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Kim M. Pepin, United States Department of Agriculture
Kurt C. VerCauteren, United States Department of Agriculture

ORCID

Miranda H.J. Huang: 0000-0001-8891-9772

Bronson K. Strickland: 0000-0002-3119-2514

Stuart Lichtenberg: 0000-0002-2445-8927

Kim M. Pepin: 0000-0002-9931-8312

Kurt VerCauteren: 0000-0002-4783-493X

Comments

Two Data sets:

1. Behavioral data set with wildlife visitation to white-tailed deer scrapes using camera traps (main file)

2. Laboratory results from sampling scrapes (licking branch and soil) for CWD prion contamination using RT-QuIC (supplemental file)

Publication Date

2023

Spatial Coverage

SW Tennessee and N Mississippi

Temporal Coverage

2021-2022

College

College of Forest Resources

Department

Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture

Research Center

Forest and Wildlife Research Center (FWRC)| Mississippi Veterinary Research and Diagnostic Lab

Office

Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine

Keywords

chronic wasting disease, environmental contamination, environmental surveillance, prions, RT-QuIC, scraping behaviour, white-tailed deer

Disciplines

Behavior and Ethology

Recommended Citation

Huang, Miranda H.J.; Demarais, Steve; Banda, Alejandro; Strickland, Bronson K.; Welch, Anna Grace; Hearst, Scoty; Lichtenberg, Stuart; Houston, Allan; Pepin, Kim M.; and VerCauteren, Kurt C., "Chronic Wasting Disease Contamination of Deer Scrapes" (2023). College of Forest Resources Publications and Scholarship. 25.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/cfr-publications/25