Bovine Leukaemia Virus: Current Epidemiological Circumstance and Future Prospective
Bovine leukaemia virus (BLV) is a deltaretrovirus that is closely related to human T-cell leukaemia virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV-1 and -2).It causes flex 4 heartworm test enzootic bovine leukosis (EBL), which is the most important neoplastic disease in cattle.Most BLV-infected cattle are asymptomatic, which potentiates extremely high shedding rates of