title: Bovine immunodeficiency virus: facts and questions.
abstract: Bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) is a lentivirus whose serologic prevalence is worldwide. Little is known about its impact on animal health status, pathogenesis and mode of transmission. Understanding BIV biology implies isolation of new viral strains and long-term studies on experimentally-infected cows and surrogate hosts such as rabbits.
authors.affiliation: Unité de recherche associée d'immunopathologie cellulaire et moléculaire, Inra, Ecole nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Belloc
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Polack
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Schwartz-Cornil
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brownlie
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lévy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases; D005260:Female; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016679:Genome, Viral; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D016086:Lentivirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016180:Lentivirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*; D015995:Prevalence; D011817:Rabbits; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid