Appearance of ovine progressive pneumonia virus outside the United States.

Abstract

A recently isolated Israeli retrovirus from a sheep with maedi-visna was compared with other retroviruses, using cDNA-RNA hybridization in solution. The Israeli isolate was shown to have close, if not identical, genetic homologic features with the ovine progressive pneumonia virus reported in the United States, rather than with those of the maedivisna viruses of European origin.

• Authors: K Perk, S G Irving, A Yaniv, A Gazit
• Journal: American journal of veterinary research (Am J Vet Res) Vol. 46 Issue 10 Pg. 2133-5 (Oct 1985) ISSN: 0002-9645 [Print] United States
• PMID: 2998239 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.)

Topics

• Animals
• Europe
• Pneumonia, Progressive Interstitial, of Sheep (diagnosis)
• Sheep
• United States
• Visna-maedi virus (isolation & purification)