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Lessons in AIDS vaccine development learned from studies of equine infectious, anemia virus infection and immunity.
Viruses - 2 Dec 2013
Craigo Jodi K, Montelaro Ronald C
Abstract excerpt
Equine infectious anemia (EIA), identified in 1843 [1] as an infectious disease of horses and as a viral infection in 1904, remains a concern in veterinary medicine today. Equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) has served as an animal model of HIV-1/AIDS research since the original identification of HIV. Similar to other lentiviruses, EIAV has a high propensity for genomic sequence and antigenic variation,...
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