Oral Transmission of L-type Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Primate Model

Abstract

We report transmission of atypical L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy to mouse lemurs after oral or intracerebral inoculation with infected bovine brain tissue. After neurologic symptoms appeared, transmissibility of the disease by both inoculation routes was confirmed by detection of disease-associated prion protein in samples of brain tissue.

Keywords

• prion
• prions and related diseases
• bovine spongiform encephalopathy
• BSE
• L-type BSE
• mouse lemur