CD8+ lymphocytes in bronchoalveolar lavage and blood: in vivo indicators of lung pathology caused by maedi-visna virus.

doi:10.1016/0165-2427(95)05460-n

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CD8+ lymphocytes in bronchoalveolar lavage and blood: in vivo indicators of lung pathology caused by maedi-visna virus.

Veterinary immunology and immunopathology - 1 Nov 1995

Luján L, Begara I, Collie D D, Watt N J

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A study to determine the putative relationship between lymphocyte phenotypic alterations in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and stage of lung pathology in maedi-visna infected sheep has been carried out. Twenty-one ewes (16 Texel and five Scottish blackface) naturally infected by maedi-visna virus a...

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Animals
Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes
Female
Lung
Lymphocyte Count
Lymphocyte Subsets
Phenotype
Pneumonia, Progressive Interstitial, of Sheep
Sheep

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