Transmission of new bovine prion to mice.

Emerg Infect Dis

Unité Agents Transmissibles Non Conventionnels, Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments, Lyon, France.

Published: July 2006

We previously reported that cattle were affected by a prion disorder that differed from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) by showing distinct molecular features of disease-associated protease-resistant prion protein (PrP(res). We show that intracerebral injection of such isolates into C57BL/6 mice produces a disease with preservation of PrP(res) molecular features distinct from BSE.

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