Building upon the success of the Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science and completing
Volumes I and II of the Second Edition, Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science, Second …

Background FIV was first isolated from cats in 1986 during the height of the human
immunodefieciency virus (HIV)-AIDS pandemic in the Western world, at a time when …

The bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) is a lentivirus which is known to infect cattle
worldwide. Though serological and genomic evidence of BIV in cattle has been found …

Biomedical research involving animals remains essential for the advancement of the
medical, veterinary, agricultural, and biological sciences. Following in the footsteps of its …

One of the major obstacles that must be overcome in the design of effective lentiviral
vaccines is the ability of lentiviruses to evolve in order to escape from neutralizing …

Bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) was first isolated in 1969 from a cow, R-29, with a
wasting syndrome. The virus isolated induced the formation of syncytia in cell cultures and …

Analysing the evolution of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) at the intra-host level is
important in order to address whether the diversity and composition of viral quasispecies …

Jembrana disease virus (JDV) is a lentivirus associated with an acute disease syndrome
with a 20% case fatality rate in Bos javanicus (Bali cattle) in Indonesia, occurring after a …

Bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) is a lentivirus that causes disease in cattle. Despite the
large cattle industry in western Canada, the presence of BIV has not been examined to date …

Isolates of bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) exhibit a striking genomic diversity, most of
which are located in the viral envelope gene. Since this property of the BIV group of viruses …