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In this study, the immunohistochemical (IHC) phenotype of disease-associated prion protein (PrP<jats:sup>d<\/jats:sup>) accumulation has been determined in the brain of 64 sheep, of various breeds and PrP genotypes, that had developed neurological disease after experimental BSE challenge with different inocula by a range of routes. Sheep BSE was characterized by neuron-associated intra- and extracellular PrP<jats:sup>d<\/jats:sup> aggregates and by conspicuous and consistent deposits in the cytoplasm of microglia-like cells. The stellate PrP<jats:sup>d<\/jats:sup> type was also prominent in most brain areas and marked linear deposits in the striatum and midbrain were distinctive. Sheep of the ARR\/ARR and ARQ\/AHQ genotypes displayed lower levels of PrP<jats:sup>d<\/jats:sup> than other sheep, and intracerebral BSE challenge resulted in higher levels of PrP<jats:sup>d<\/jats:sup> accumulating in the brain compared with other routes. The PrP genotype and the route of challenge also appeared to affect the incubation period of the disease, giving rise to complex combinations of magnitude of PrP<jats:sup>d<\/jats:sup> accumulation and incubation period. 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