Volume 17, Number 1—January 2011
Research
Molecular Typing of Protease-Resistant Prion Protein in Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies of Small Ruminants, France, 2002–2009
Johann Vulin, Anne-Gaëlle Biacabe, Géraldine Cazeau, Didier Calavas, and Thierry Baron
Table
Results of TSE diagnostic tests and molecular characterization for sheep and goats, France, 2002–2009*
| Year |
Species |
No. animals tested by rapid tests |
Confirmed TSE cases |
Nor98-like isolates |
Molecular characterization |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not analyzed |
Not defined |
Scrapie |
BSE-like |
|||||
| 2002 |
Ovine | 68,580 | 153 | 15 | 0 | 16 | 122 | 0 |
| Caprine |
27,087 |
14 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
9 |
1 |
|
| 2003 |
Ovine | 63,207 | 117 | 28 | 0 | 7 | 81 | 1 |
| Caprine |
23,161 |
10 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
6 |
0 |
|
| 2004 |
Ovine | 24,639 | 58 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 48 | 0 |
| Caprine |
5,730 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
|
| 2005† |
Ovine | 34,290 | 74 | 9 | 19 | 1 | 44 | 1 |
| Caprine |
148,338 |
16 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
9 |
0 |
|
| 2006‡ |
Ovine | 492,023 | 382 | 182 | 1 | 6 | 190 | 3 |
| Caprine |
165,606 |
10 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
0 |
|
| 2007§ |
Ovine | 327,894 | 264 | 173 | 1 | 4 | 86 | 0 |
| Caprine |
183,498 |
7 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
|
| 2008¶ |
Ovine | 86,269 | 71 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
| Caprine |
79.966 |
12 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
|
| 2009 |
Ovine | 55,163 | 34 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 |
| Caprine |
52,248 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
|
| Total | Ovine | 1,152,065 | 1,153 | 481 | 24 | 35 | 608 | 5 |
| Caprine | 685,634 | 78 | 23 | 2 | 9 | 42 | 2 | |
*TSE, transmissible spongiform encephalopathy; BSE, bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
†January 2005, beginning of exhaustive testing of goats in abattoir and rendering plant.
‡First quarter 2006, beginning of exhaustive testing of sheep in abattoir and rendering plant.
§January 2007, end of exhaustive testing of sheep in abattoir.
¶February 2008, end of exhaustive testing of goats in abattoir and sheep in rendering plant.
