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Gene transfer systems derived from Visna virus: analysis of virus production and infectivity.

The mechanisms of neuronal damage in retroviral infections of the nervous system.

How to succeed as a virus: strategies for dealing with the immune system.

CD4(+) T-cells are required for the establishment of maedi-visna virus infection in macrophages but not dendritic cells in vivo.

Serological survey and epidemiological investigation of maedi-visna in sheep in Finland.

The comparative pathology of the lentiviruses.

Use of a recombinant maedi-visna virus protein ELISA for the serologic diagnosis of lentivirus infections in small ruminants.

PCR detection of lentiviral GAG segment DNA in the white blood cells of sheep and goats.

Constitutive and visna virus induced expression of class I and II major histocompatibility complex antigens in the central nervous system of sheep and their role in the pathogenesis of visna lesions.

Visna-maedi virus induces interleukin-8 in sheep alveolar macrophages through a tyrosine-kinase signaling pathway.

Visna virus dUTPase is dispensable for neuropathogenicity.

[Continuation of the observation and serological investigation of a Maedi-Visna virus infected sheep flock from January 1990 to June 1996].

Biological and genetic differences between lung- and brain-derived isolates of maedi-visna virus.

Pathogenesis of ovine lentiviral encephalitis: derivation of a neurovirulent strain by in vivo passage.

Integration of visna virus DNA occurs and may be necessary for productive infection.

Presence of a unique parainfluenza virus 3 strain identified by RT-PCR in visna-maedi virus infected sheep.

Effect of in vitro maedi-visna virus infection on adherence and phagocytosis of staphylococci by ovine cells.

In vivo and in vitro infection with two different molecular clones of visna virus.

Maedi-Visna and ovine progressive pneumonia.

Detection of Maedi-Visna virus antibodies using a single fusion transmembrane-core p25 recombinant protein ELISA and a modified receiver-operating characteristic analysis to determine cut-off values.