Abstract Background Subclinical infection with bovine leukemia virus (BLV) in cows can cause economic losses milk and meat production many countries, as BLV-related negative effects. The volatile fatty acids (VFAs) microbiota present the digestive tracts of contribute to cow health. Here, we exploratorily investigated VFAs rumen gut respect subclinical BLV using housed at a single farm. Results...

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) has spread worldwide and causes serious problems in the cattle industry owing to lack of effective treatments vaccines. BLV is transmitted via horizontal vertical infection, with high proviral load (PVL), which a useful index for estimating disease progression transmission risk, are considered major infectious sources within herds. PVL strongly correlates highly poly...

Infection by bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is characterized by a long latency period, after which some individuals develop B-cell tumors. The behavior of BLV and related retroviruses during the latency period between initial infection and subsequent tumorigenesis is poorly understood. We used in situ hybridization to detect BLV transcripts in individual peripheral blood mononuclear cells from exp...

cDNA synthesized on the bovine leukemia virus RNA template has been cloned in the pBR322 Pst I site. Colony hybridization with BLV RNA fragments and oligo (dT) has revealed a clone with cDNA insert containing 660 3'-terminal nucleotides of the BLV genome. The nucleotide sequence of the insert corresponding to U3 and R regions of the long terminal repeats (LTR) of viral genome has been determine...

The bovine MHC (BoLA) class II DRB3 alleles are associated with polyclonal expansion of lymphocytes caused by bovine leukemia virus (BLV) infection in cattle. To examine whether the DRB3*0902 allele, one of the resistance-associated alleles, is associated with the proviral load, we measured BLV proviral load of BLV-infected cattle and clarified their DRB3 alleles. Fifty-seven animals with DRB3*...

Abstract. The purpose of the research Was to study genetic diversity bovine leukemia virus isolates obtained in Belgorod Region using restriction fragment length polymorphism method (RFLP). Scientific novelty. Bovine leukosis is one most common chronic infectious diseases cattle many countries world, which causes significant economic losses livestock industry. typing (BLV), its structure, evalu...

Monoclonal integration of bovine leukemia virus (BLV) proviral DNA into bovine genomes was detected in peripheral blood from two clinical cases of enzootic bovine leukosis (EBL) without enlargement of superficial lymph nodes. A BLV-specific probe hybridized with 1 to 3 EcoRI and HindIII fragments in these 2 atypical EBL cattle by Southern blotting and hybridization, as well as in 3 typical EBL ...

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) replication is controlled by both cis- and trans-acting elements. The virus-encoded transactivator, Tax, is necessary for efficient transcription from the BLV promoter, although it is not present during the early stages of infection. Therefore, sequences that control Tax-independent transcription must play an important role in the initiation of viral gene expression....

The host immune response is believed to tightly control viral replication of deltaretroviruses such as human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) and bovine leukemia virus (BLV). However, this assumption has not been definitely proven in vivo. In order to further evaluate the importance of the immune response in the BLV model, we studied the fate of cells in which viral expression was transient...