Article
Diversity among bovine pestiviruses.
Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997) - 1 Mar 2001
Hamers C, Dehan P, Couvreur B, Letellier C, Kerkhofs P, Pastoret P P
Abstract excerpt
Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) isolates are characterized by an important genetic, antigenic and pathogenic diversity. The emergence of new hypervirulent BVDV strains in North America has provided clear evidence of pathogenic differences between BVDV strains. The origin of BVDV diversity is related to high mutation rate occurring in RNA viruses but the consequences of mutations obviously depend on the genes...
Topics
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Antigenic Variation
- Bovine Virus Diarrhea-Mucosal Disease
- Cattle
- Diarrhea Viruses, Bovine Viral
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Mutation
- RNA, Viral
- Vaccination