Atypical H-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a cow born after the reinforced feed ban on meat-and-bone meal in Europe

Claudia Guldimann; Michaela Gsponer; Cord Drögemüller; Anna Oevermann; Torsten Seuberlich

doi:10.1128/JCM.02178-12

Atypical H-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy in a cow born after the reinforced feed ban on meat-and-bone meal in Europe

J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Dec;50(12):4171-4. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02178-12. Epub 2012 Oct 3.

Authors

Claudia Guldimann¹, Michaela Gsponer, Cord Drögemüller, Anna Oevermann, Torsten Seuberlich

Affiliation

¹ NeuroCentre, National and OIE Reference Laboratory for BSE and Scrapie, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Abstract

The significance of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathies (BSE) in cattle for controlling the BSE epidemic is poorly understood. Here we report a case of atypical H-type BSE in a cow born after the implementation of the reinforced feed ban in Europe. This supports an etiology of H-type BSE unrelated to that of classical BSE.

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Products
Blotting, Western
Brain / pathology
Cattle
Diet / methods*
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / diagnosis*
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / pathology
Europe
Histocytochemistry
Immunohistochemistry
Meat
Microscopy
Minerals
Prions / analysis
Prions / genetics
Sequence Analysis, DNA

Substances

Biological Products
Minerals
Prions
bone meal