Diagnosis and Early Prediction of Lymphoma Using High-Throughput Clonality Analysis of Bovine Leukemia Virus-Infected Cells

ABSTRACT Bovine leukemia virus (BLV), a retrovirus, infects B cells of ruminants and is integrated into the host genome as a provirus for lifelong infection. After a long latent period, 1% to 5% of BLV-infected cattle develop aggressive lymphoma, enzootic bovine leukosis (EBL). Since the clonal expa...

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Main Authors: Tomohiro Okagawa, Honami Shimakura, Satoru Konnai, Masumichi Saito, Takahiro Matsudaira, Naganori Nao, Shinji Yamada, Kenji Murakami, Naoya Maekawa, Shiro Murata, Kazuhiko Ohashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-12-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02595-22