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Antibody response against three widespread bovine viruses is not impaired in Holstein cattle carrying bovine leukocyte antigen DRB3.2 alleles associated with bovine leukemia virus resistance.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Jan 2009
Juliarena M A, Poli M, Ceriani C, Sala L, Rodríguez E, Gutierrez S, Dolcini G, Odeon A, Esteban E N
Abstract excerpt
Due to the wide dissemination of bovine leukemia virus (BLV) infection among dairy cattle, control and eradication programs based on serological detection of infected cattle and subsequent culling face a major economic task. In Argentina, genetic selection of cattle carrying alleles of the bovine leukocyte antigen (BoLA) DRB3.2 gene associated with BLV-infection resistance, like *0902, emerges as the best...
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