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An EIAV field isolate reveals much higher levels of subtype variability than currently reported for the equine lentivirus family.
Retrovirology - 20 Oct 2009
Craigo Jodi K, Barnes Shannon, Zhang Baoshan, Cook Sheila J, Howe Laryssa, Issel Charles J, Montelaro Ronald C
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BACKGROUND: Equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV), a lentivirus that infects horses, has been utilized as an animal model for the study of HIV. Furthermore, the disease associated with the equine lentivirus poses a significant challenge to veterinary medicine around the world. As with all lentiviruses, EIAV has been shown to have a high propensity for genomic sequence and antigenic variation, especially in its...
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