TY - JOUR AU - Seuberlich, Torsten AU - Botteron, Catherine AU - Wenker, Christian AU - Café-Marçal, Valeria AU - Oevermann, Anna AU - Haase, Bianca AU - Leeb, Tosso AU - Heim, Dagmar AU - Zurbriggen, Andreas T1 - Spongiform Encephalopathy in a Miniature Zebu T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 12 SP - 1950 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The first case of spongiform encephalopathy in a zebu (Bos indicus) was identified in a zoo in Switzerland. Although histopathologic and immunohistochemical analyses of the central nervous system indicated a diagnosis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), molecular typing showed some features different from those of BSE in cattle (B. taurus). KW - spongiform encephalopathy KW - BSE KW - cattle KW - prion KW - prion protein KW - Switzerland KW - zebu KW - scrapie KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1212.060750 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/12/06-0750_article ER - End of Reference