Tiffany M. Wolf

The paper identifies diverse viruses in wild deer across the U.S., including known pathogens and new putative viruses, highlighting potential for pathogen spillover.

The paper investigates whether DNA extraction methods co-purify prions, finding that commercial kits do not eliminate prion seeding activity, posing biosafety risks.

This study demonstrates that CWD prions can contaminate processing surfaces and be transferred to CWD-negative venison, but can be inactivated using bleach and potassium peroxymonosulfate.

This paper develops a method using nanopore adaptive sampling to rapidly identify mammalian species from scat samples, achieving accurate identifications for most samples and detecting a misidentification in one case.

This study establishes a standardized method using maxpoint ratios (MPR) to improve consistency in RT-QuIC analysis for detecting chronic wasting disease.

The paper develops a field-deployable diagnostic assay, MN-QuIC, for visual detection of misfolded prions in CWD-infected deer, showing 100% consistency with established tests.