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Isolation and partial characterization of Brazilian samples of feline immunodeficiency virus.
Virus research - 1 Sept 2011
Teixeira B M, Logan N, Samman A, Miyashiro S I, Brandão P E, Willett B J, Hosie M J, Hagiwara M K
Abstract excerpt
Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) causes a slow progressive degeneration of the immune system which eventually leads to a disease comparable to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in humans. FIV has extensive sequence variation, a typical feature of lentiviruses. Sequence analysis showed that diversity was not evenly distributed throughout the genome, but was greatest in the envelope gene, env. The virus...
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