Figure 2 .

Kaplan-Meier survival curves for Tg338 mice inoculated with different isolates of small ruminant scrapie. Shown are the survival curves for first (upper panel) and second (lower panel) intracerebral passage in Tg338 mice including censored data. Scrapie isolates were derived from the brain of three clinical goats (broken lines: 3538, 3558 and 30–75) and a reference sheep (solid blue line: 3178). Note the reductions in survival times per isolate (days post-inoculation, dpi) as well as the reduction in survival time variation between isolates upon second passage. The color line code for each isolate source is indicated in the key.