Maedi-Visna virus: current perspectives [PDF]
Esperanza Gomez-Lucia, Nuria Barquero, Ana Domenech Department of Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain Abstract: Maedi-Visna virus (MVV) and caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus are commonly known as small ...
Gomez-Lucia E, Barquero N, Domenech A
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Etiology, Epizootiology and Control of Maedi-Visna in Dairy Sheep: A Review [PDF]
Maedi-visna (MV) in sheep is caused by maedi-visna virus (MVV), a small ruminant lentivirus (SRLV) that causes chronic infection and inflammatory lesions in infected animals.
Aphrodite I. Kalogianni +3 more
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Ovine Progressive Pneumonia: Diagnosis and Seroprevalence in the South of Sonora, Mexico
Ovine progressive pneumonia (OPP) is the most severe presentation of small ruminant lentivirus (SRLV) infection known as Maedi-Visna. Serological evidence in Mexico of the presence of this lentivirus was published in 1986.
Mercedes Yannin Borquez Cuevas +4 more
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Vaccination delays maedi-visna lentivirus infection in a naturally-infected sheep flock [PDF]
Background The Maedi-Visna (MV) lentivirus causes two slowly progressive eventually fatal diseases of sheep, Maedi, a progressive interstitial pneumonia, and Visna, a progressive demyelinating disease of the central nervous system.
Gudnadóttir Margrét +2 more
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Produção de antígeno nucleoprotéico do vírus da artrite-encefalite caprina e comparação com o do vírus Maedi-Visna para utilização em teste de imunodifusão em ágar gel [PDF]
Foi feita uma comparação entre os antígenos (Ag), preparados a partir dos vírus Maedi-Visna (MVV) e Artrite-encefalite Caprina (CAEV) para detecção de anticorpos contra o CAEV em 120 amostras de soro caprino.
Silvio R. O. Abreu +3 more
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Immune response to maedi-visna virus [PDF]
The ovine maedi-visna virus (MVV) was the first lentivirus to be isolated and characterized 1957 in Iceland. MVV leads to a life-long, persistent infection with slow development of lesions in the lung and the central nervous system (CNS). The main target cells of MVV are of the monocyte/macrophage lineage and it does not infect T-lymphocytes or cause ...
Sigurbjörg Torsteinsdóttir
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Association of Maedi Visna virus with Brucella ovis infection in rams
Maedi Visna Virus (MVV) is the etiological agent of a systemic disease of sheep, which causes lesions in lungs, the central nervous system, joints, and mammary glands.
S Preziuso +8 more
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Clinical and pathological investigation of Maedi-visna outbreak in a farm from Bulgaria [PDF]
Background: In the autumn of 2024, an outbreak of Maedi-visna (MV) was identified in Bulgaria in the village of Sigmen, Burgas district. The disease is a slowly progressive, persistent, usually subclinical viral infection in sheep, distributed worldwide.
Gabriela Goujgoulova, Koycho Koev
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Investigation, management and control of a maedi outbreak in Norway in 2019-2020 [PDF]
Background Visna-maedi is a notifiable disease in Norway, and eliminating the disease is a national goal. The import of sheep into Norway is very limited, and strict regulations apply to the movement of small ruminants between flocks and within defined ...
Grim Rømo +11 more
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