Figure 6.
Comparison of the PrPres distribution in brains in different BSE phenotypes. Tissue samples from all available brain regions in clinical suspect C-type BSE cases, the H-type BSE zebu and the emergency slaughtered C-type BSE case Elfe-06 were analyzed in a quantitative BSE screening test (Check PrioStrip). The average signal intensities (relative density units, RDU, left scale) in the C-type BSE cases (filled circles, dashed line) were compared to those of the H-type BSE zebu (open squares, continuous line) and to relative signal intensities (right scale) in Western blot analysis reported for experimentally infected L-type BSE cases (grey triangles) in the literature. For brain region code see figure 3.