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Patterns of feline immunodeficiency virus multiple infection and genome divergence in a free-ranging population of African lions.
Journal of virology - 1 Apr 2004
Troyer Jennifer L, Pecon-Slattery Jill, Roelke Melody E, Black Lori, Packer Craig, O'Brien Stephen J
Abstract excerpt
Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a lentivirus that causes AIDS-like immunodeficiency disease in domestic cats. Free-ranging lions, Panthera leo, carry a chronic species-specific strain of FIV, FIV-Ple, which so far has not been convincingly connected with immune pathology or mortality. FIV-Ple, harboring the three distinct strains A, B, and C defined by pol gene sequence divergences, is endemic in the large...
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