Table 1.
Cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in aged cattle (age ≥ 8 years) in Switzerland, as identified by passive surveillance (clinical suspect, CS) or active surveillance (emergency slaughtered cattle, ES; fallen stock, FS; regularly slaughtered cattle, RS) from 1990 to 2008 and the availability of frozen brain tissues samples from different neuroanatomical structures.
| BSE case | Brain region sample availabilityb) | ||||||||||||
| IDa) | Age | Breedc) | MO | CC | MB | HC | PL | TH | BG | CF | CO | CT | |
| CS | Bambi-01 | 11.5 | BV | X | X | X | X | ||||||
| Bärgi-97 | 8.4 | SI/RH | X | X | X | X | (X) | (X) | X | (X) | (X) | X | |
| Bea-97 | 8.3 | BV | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Charly-04 | 19 | zebu | X | X | X | Xd) | Xe) | X | X | X | (X) | ||
| Fortuna-00 | 8.1 | HF | X | X | X | X | X | X | (X) | (X) | (X) | ||
| Gabi-97 | 8.1 | SI/RH | X | X | X | X | (X) | X | |||||
| Jalouse-99 | 8.9 | SI/RH | X | (X) | X | X | X | X | |||||
| Julia-99 | 8.9 | BV | X | (X) | X | (X) | (X) | X | X | X | (X) | X | |
| Karin-93 | 9 | BV | |||||||||||
| Linda-96 | 10.2 | BV | |||||||||||
| Loli-96 | 8 | BV | X | ||||||||||
| Martina-96 | 8.9 | SI/RH | X | (X) | X | X | X | (X) | X | (X) | (X) | ||
| Meieli-99 | 9 | SI/RH | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | (X) | X | |
| Mirelle-01 | 13.3 | SI | X | ||||||||||
| Nadia-98 | 8.9 | SI/RH | X | X | X | X | (X) | X | X | (X) | X | ||
| Olga-98 | 8.1 | SI/RH | X | (X) | X | X | X | X | (X) | (X) | X | ||
| Orchidee-02 | 10.2 | BV | X | (X) | X | (X) | (X) | (X) | |||||
| Priska-02 | 10.9 | SI/RH | X | ||||||||||
| Spiegel-06 | 11.1 | SI/RH | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Werita-98 | 8.3 | HF | X | X | X | X | X | X | (X) | X | (X) | ||
| ES | Boheme-06 | 12.5 | SI/RH | X | |||||||||
| Dora-03 | 8.5 | BV | X | ||||||||||
| Elfe-06 | 11 | SI/RH | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | (X) | ||
| Elvira-01 | 11.9 | SI/RH | X | ||||||||||
| Lilly-06 | 10.8 | SI/RH | X | ||||||||||
| Nadia-04 | 11.4 | SI/RH | |||||||||||
| Natascha-05 | 10.2 | HF | X | ||||||||||
| Virginia-03 | 9 | SI/RH | X | ||||||||||
| FS | Berty-00 | 8.9 | BV | X | |||||||||
| Flurina-00 | 10.3 | BV | X | ||||||||||
| Judith-02 | 8.8 | BV | X | ||||||||||
| Ramona-05 | 8.7 | BV | |||||||||||
| Starba-03 | 8.2 | BV | X | ||||||||||
| RS | Bunaug-02 | 14.6 | BV | X | |||||||||
| Carmen-01 | 9 | SI/RH | X | ||||||||||
| Maya-03 | 9.4 | HF | X | ||||||||||
| Ulla-04 | 8.7 | SI/RH | X | ||||||||||
a) animal name and year of diagnosis
b) brackets indicate samples with signal intensities too weak for biochemical typing. MO, medulla oblongata; CC, cerebellar cortex; MB, midbrain; HC, hippocampus; PL, piriform lobe; TH, thalamus; BG, basal ganglia; CF, frontal cortex; CO, occipital cortex; CT, temporal cortex
c) BV, Brown Swiss; SI/RH, Simmental/Red Holstein; HF, Holstein Friesian
d) only available for TeSeE Western Blot
e) only available for Check PrioStrip