Comparative Evaluation of Three Commercial Quantitative Real-Time PCRs Used in Japan for Bovine Leukemia Virus

Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is an oncogenic virus belonging to the genus <i>Deltaretrovirus</i> and is the causative agent of enzootic bovine leukosis. Proviral load (PVL) determined by real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) is now widely used as an indicator of not only BLV infection, but al...

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Main Authors: Syuji Yoneyama, Sota Kobayashi, Towa Matsunaga, Kaoru Tonosaki, Dongze Leng, Yusuke Sakai, Shinji Yamada, Atsushi Kimura, Toshihiro Ichijo, Hirokazu Hikono, Kenji Murakami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-05-01
Series:Viruses
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/14/6/1182