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Volume 12, Number
2, February 2006
Surveillance for Prion Disease
in Cervids, Germany
Elvira Schettler,* Falko Steinbach,*† Iris Eschenbacher-Kaps,‡ Kirsten
Gerst,§ Franz Meussdoerffer,¶ Kirsten Risch,§ Wolf Jürgen Streich,* and
Kai Frölich*
*Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany; †Veterinary
Laboratories Agency, Weybridge, United Kingdom; ‡Cenas AG, Kulmbach, Germany;
§Landesveterinär- und Lebensmitteluntersuchungsamt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
Rostock, Germany; and ¶University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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, samples originating from a district without
any risk attributes; 
, samples originating from a district where BSE
incidence in cattle was higher than average BSE incidence in Germany;
, samples
originating from a district with occurrence of scrapie in domestic sheep;
, samples
from red deer originating from a district with high red deer density;
, fallow
deer samples originating from a district with high fallow deer density;
n, number of samples from each federal state. Samples came from 14 (88%)
of the 16 federal states (2 missing states are 2 major cities with almost
no deer population) and from 280 (87%) of the 323 German administrative
districts.