The first Canadian indigenous case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has molecular characteristics for prion protein that are similar to those of BSE in the United Kingdom but differ from those of chronic wasting disease in captive elk and deer. - Stack MJ; Balachandran A; Chaplin M; Davis L; Czub S; Miller B (The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne, 2004)