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Reduced bovine leukaemia virus proviral load in genetically resistant cattle.
Animal genetics - 1 Aug 1998
Mirsky M L, Olmstead C, Da Y, Lewin H A
Abstract excerpt
The bovine leukaemia virus (BLV) is an exogenous retrovirus that is closely related to the human T cell leukaemia viruses. Genetic resistance and susceptibility to persistent lymphocytosis (PL), an advanced subclinical stage of infection characterized by a polyclonal expansion of the infected B cell population, have been mapped to structural motifs in bovine MHC DRB3 (class II) alleles. To determine whether...
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