Detection of prion disease
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This invention relates to the field of the detection of prion diseases. The invention provides a binding molecule or antibody specifically reactive with an epitope which is exposed on a part of an aberrant conformer (PrPSc) of a prion protein after treatment of said conformer with a protease wherein said epitope is not or only partly exposed on a prion protein which has not been treated with a protease.