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Examination of the fecal microbiota in dairy cows infected with bovine leukemia virus.
Veterinary microbiology - 1 Jan 2020
Uchiyama Jumpei, Murakami Hironobu, Sato Reiichiro, Mizukami Keijiro, Suzuki Takehito, Shima Ayaka, Ishihara Genki, Sogawa Kazuyuki, Sakaguchi Masahiro
Abstract excerpt
Infection of cattle by bovine leukemia virus (BLV) causes significant economic losses in terms of milk and meat production in many countries. Because the gut microbiota may be altered by immunomodulation resulting from viral infections, we hypothesized that latent BLV infection would change the gut (i.e., rumen and hindgut) microbiota of infected cattle. In this study, we compared the gut microbiota of 22...
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