Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medicine

Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary & Animal Science, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand,, India

Publications

• Review Article   
  Enzootic Bovine Leukosis
  Author(s): Pandey Garima, Agarwal Seema* and Tiwari Aakansha
  
  Enzootic bovine leukosis is a neoplastic disease of dairy cattle and is caused by bovine leukosis virus of Retroviridae family. Disease is characterized by proliferation of immune system cells that is B lymphocytes resulting into the condition of B cell lymphosarcoma. The first case of bovine leukosis was reported in 1871 in Eastern Europe. Enzootic bovine leukosis is more prevalent in the areas of America, Australia, Canada and in some European countries. Anorexia, weakness, weight loss, neurological disorders are some of the clinical signs shown by the infected animal. Sheep is the ideal animal model for the experimental inoculation of BLV. Enzootic bovine leukosisis transmitted by contaminated equipments, biting of insects, milk from infected cow. As such no treatment is available, only symptomatic treatment of infected animal is done... Read More»
  

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