Recombinant Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) variants establish a limited infection with altered cell tropism in speciflc-pathoeen-free cats in the absence of FeLV subgroup a helper virus

Veterinary Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 91-99

  Bechtel, M K ^b   Hayes, K A ^b   Mathes, L E ^b   Pandey, R ^b   Stromberg, P C ^b   Roy Burman, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELIDAE; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FELIS CATUS; SUBGROUP A;

PRIMER DNA; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GERMFREE ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GROWTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; SALIVARY GLAND; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPLEEN; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, FELINE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SPLEEN; TROPISM; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS;

EID: 0033091586     PISSN: 03009858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1354/vp.36-2-91     Document Type: Article

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