Ruminant Pestivirus Infections: Virology, Pathogenesis, and Perspectives of Prophylaxis

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Pestiviruses—taxonomic perspectives....Pages 1-5
Molecular characterization of hog cholera virus....Pages 7-18
Bovine viral diarrhea virus genomic organization....Pages 19-27
Bovine viral diarrhea virus proteins and their antigenic analyses....Pages 29-40
A “zinc finger-like” domain in the 54 KDA protein of several pestiviruses....Pages 41-46
BVD monoclonal antibodies: relationship between viral protein specificity and viral strain specificity....Pages 47-54
Correlation of bovine viral diarrhoea virus induced cytopathic effects with expression of a biotype-specific marker....Pages 55-66
Cytopathogenicity of pestiviruses isolated post mortem from cattle....Pages 67-70
Diaplacental infections with ruminant pestiviruses....Pages 71-78
The pathways for bovine virus diarrhoea virus biotypes in the pathogenesis of disease....Pages 79-96
Border disease of sheep—Aspects for diagnostic and epidemiologic consideration....Pages 97-100
A study of some pathogenetic aspects of bovine viral diarrhea virus infection....Pages 101-108
Distribution of antigen of noncytopathogenic and cytopathogenic bovine virus diarrhea virus biotypes in the intestinal tract of calves following experimental production of mucosal disease....Pages 109-124
Clinical and virological observations of a mucosal disease outbreak with persistently-infected seropositive survivors....Pages 125-132
Insertion of cellular sequences in the genome of bovine viral diarrhea virus....Pages 133-142
Congenital curly haircoat as a symptom of persistent infection with bovine virus diarrhoea virus in calves....Pages 143-148
Identification and production of pestivirus proteins for diagnostic and vaccination purposes....Pages 149-156
Surveillance of cattle herds for bovine virus diarrhoea virus (BVDV)-infection using data on reproduction and calf mortality....Pages 157-164
Flow cytometric detection of bovine viral diarrhoea virus....Pages 165-167
Identification of cattle infected with bovine virus diarrhoea virus using a monoclonal antibody capture ELISA....Pages 169-174
Detection of border disease virus in sheep efferent lymphocytes by immunocytochemical and in situ hybridisation techniques....Pages 175-180
Bovine viral diarrhea virus infection: rapid diagnosis by the polymerase chain reaction....Pages 181-190
cDNA probes for the detection of pestiviruses....Pages 191-197
Detection of persistent bovine viral diarrhea virus infections by DNA hybridization and polymerase chain reaction assay....Pages 199-208
Differentiation of pestiviruses by a hog cholera virus-specific genetic probe....Pages 209-215
Lesions in aborted bovine fetuses and placenta associated with bovine viral diarrhoea virus infection....Pages 217-224
Immunological reactivity of bovine viral diarrhea virus proteins after proteolytic treatment....Pages 225-230
Polymerase chain reaction amplification of segments of pestivirus genomes....Pages 231-238
Production of monoclonal antibodies to study the molecular biology of bovine viral diarrhea virus....Pages 239-244
Determination of level of antibodies to bovine virus diarrhoea virus (BVDV) in bulk tank milk as a tool in the diagnosis and prophylaxis of BVDV infections in dairy herds....Pages 245-251
BVD-virus infection in goats — experimental studies on transplacental transmissibility of the virus and its effect on reproduction....Pages 253-256
BVD virus isolation techniques for routine use in cattle herds with or without previous BVD history....Pages 257-260
Molecular characterisation of the coding region for the p125 from homologous BVDV biotypes....Pages 261-265
Progeny of sheep persistently infected with border disease virus....Pages 267-271