Reduced bovine leukaemia virus proviral load in genetically resistant cattle.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2052.1998.00320.x

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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

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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 c...

Topics

Aging
Alleles
Animals
B-Lymphocytes
CD5 Antigens
Cattle
Cell Separation
Enzootic Bovine Leukosis
Female
Flow Cytometry
Genotype
Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
Immunity, Innate
Leukemia Virus, Bovine
Monocytes
Viral Load

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