Gammaretrovirus-specific antibodies in free-ranging and captive Namibian cheetahs

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 611-617

  Krengel, Annika ^a,d   Cattori, Valentino ^b   Meli, Marina L ^b   Wachter, Bettina ^a   Böni, Jürg ^b   Bisset, Leslie R ^b   Thalwitzer, Susanne ^a,e   Melzheimer, Jörg ^a   Jago, Mark ^c   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^b   Hofer, Heribert ^a   Lutz, Hans ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Farm Okonjima   (Namibia)

^d Wilhelma   (Germany)

^e Meat Board of Namibia   (Namibia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHEETAH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FEMALE; GAMMARETROVIRUS; MALE; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAUSCHER MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; SEROLOGY; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACINONYX; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD; LEUKEMIA VIRUS, FELINE; MALE; NAMIBIA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 84930584914     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00705-14     Document Type: Article

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