Article
Quasispecies Composition of Small Ruminant Lentiviruses Found in Blood Leukocytes and Milk Epithelial Cells.
Viruses - 13 Dec 2021
Olech Monika, Bomba Arkadiusz, Kuźmak Jacek
Abstract excerpt
Small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLVs) exist as populations of closely related genetic variants, known as quasispecies, within an individual host. The privileged way of SRLVs transmission in goats is through the ingestion of colostrum and milk of infected does. Thus, characterization of SRLV variants transmitted through the milk, including milk epithelial cells (MEC), may provide useful information about the...
Topics
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Epithelial Cells
- Goats
- Lentivirus
- Leukocytes
- Milk
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
