American Association of Bovine Practitioners Proceedings of the Annual Conference 2019
DOI: 10.21423/aabppro20197261
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Bovine leukemia virus in the U.S. dairy industry

Abstract: Bovine leukemia virus is a deltaretrovirus of cattle and the causitive agent of enzootic bovine leukosis. A small proportion of infected animals develop the clinical manifestation of lymphoma, however the majority remain subclinically infected. Infection is common in the U.S. dairy cattle population and in other major dairy producing countries that have not taken steps to reduce and erradicate infection in their populations. The 1997 and 2008 NAHMS dairy studies examined the prevalence of BLV infection at the … Show more

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