Involvement of gene in lentivirus infections of sheep, goats has been established
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 16:02
in Health & Medicine
The mechanism of the action of the small ruminant lentivirus, a type of virus in the same family as HIV and which infects sheep and goat species, has been studied in a new doctoral thesis. Lentiviruses are viruses responsible for slow infections that damage the immune system and which cause a range of clinical symptoms (nervous, pulmonary, arthritic and mammary).