Humoral immune response to the bovine immunodeficiency-like virus in experimentally and naturally infected cattle. |
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| Authors: | C A Whetstone M J VanDerMaaten J W Black |
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| Affiliation: | U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa 50010. |
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| Abstract: | Calves inoculated with bovine immunodeficiency-like virus (BIV) produced virus-specific antibodies that could be detected from 2 weeks to 2.5 years postinoculation by using both indirect fluorescent-antibody and Western immunoblot assays. Antibodies were primarily to p26. Virus and BIV-specific antibodies were isolated from calves given BIV-infected blood. Antibodies to BIV proteins were found in sera from naturally infected cattle. |
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