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Lack of association between amino acid sequences of the bovine leukemia virus envelope and varying stages of infection in dairy cattle.
Virus research - 1 Mar 2020
Cerón Téllez Fernando, González Méndez Ana Silvia, Tórtora Pérez Jorge Luis, Loza-Rubio Elizabeth, Ramírez Álvarez Hugo
Abstract excerpt
We collected 724 blood samples from dairy cattle from six Mexican states, and tested them for the presence of antibodies against BLV using a commercial ELISA test. Our study groups consisted of 32 samples: 12 asymptomatic cows, 12 cows with lymphocytosis and 8 samples of tumor tissue of the abomasum and heart of cattle with lymphoma. We designed three pairs of primers to amplify the complete BLV env gene, and...
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