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Characterization of the cytopathic BVDV strains isolated from 13 mucosal disease cases arising in a cattle herd.
Virus research - 2 Jan 2015
Darweesh Mahmoud F, Rajput Mrigendra K S, Braun Lyle J, Ridpath Julia F, Neill John D, Chase Christopher C L
Abstract excerpt
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a positive single stranded RNA virus belonging to the Pestivirus genus of the Flaviviridae family. BVDV has a wide host range that includes most ruminants. Noncytopathic (ncp) BVDV may establish lifelong persistent infections in calves following infection of the fetus between 40 and 120 days of gestation. Cytopathic (cp) BVDV strains arise from ncp strains via mutations. The...
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