Summary of the molecular/biochemical properties of PrPres used to discriminate between the three BSE types.

Determination of these five characteristics provides valuable information in typing BSE cases. Each of the Canadian cases were definitively place it into one of the three know types of BSE after reviewing the results generated when determining these five characteristics.Ab = Antibody, D/M = Diglycosylated PrPres/Monoglycosylated PrPres, S/M = stringent digest immunoreactivity/mild digest immunoreactivity.