Concept information
Preferred term
Wasting Disease, Chronic
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (prion disease) of DEER and elk characterized by chronic weight loss leading to death. It is thought to spread by direct contact between animals or through environmental contamination with the prion protein (PRIONS).
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Chronic Wasting Disease
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- blood (Qualifier)
- cerebrospinal fluid (Qualifier)
- chemically induced (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- complications (Qualifier)
- congenital (Qualifier)
- diagnosis (Qualifier)
- diagnostic imaging (Qualifier)
- diet therapy (Qualifier)
- drug therapy (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- embryology (Qualifier)
- enzymology (Qualifier)
- epidemiology (Qualifier)
- etiology (Qualifier)
- genetics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- microbiology (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- parasitology (Qualifier)
- pathology (Qualifier)
- physiopathology (Qualifier)
- prevention & control (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- radiotherapy (Qualifier)
- surgery (Qualifier)
- therapy (Qualifier)
- transmission (Qualifier)
- urine (Qualifier)
- virology (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Cachexie chronique
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Cachexie chronique des cerfs et des wapitis
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CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease)
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Maladie débilitante chronique
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Maladie débilitante chronique des cervidés
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Maladie du dépérissement chronique des cervidés
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MDC (Maladie Débilitante Chronique)
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Syndrome de dégénérescence chronique des cervidés
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-N010XH04-H
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