Vaccination delays maedi-visna lentivirus infection in a naturally-infected sheep flock

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gudnadóttir, Margrét ^a   Demosthenous, Andreas ^b   Hadjisavvas, Theophanis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b National Veterinary Services   (Cyprus)

^c VETERINARY SERVICES   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Challenge by natural infection; Lentivirus; Maedi Visna; Vaccine trial

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LENTIVIRUS; OVIS ARIES; VISNA/MAEDI VIRUS;

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS VACCINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; MAEDI VISNA; SHEEP; VIROLOGY; VISNA VIRUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIBODY FORMATION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; SHEEP; VIRAL VACCINES; VISNA; VISNA-MAEDI VIRUS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872456967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-9-16     Document Type: Article

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