Maedi-Visna and Related Diseases / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780792304814 Publisher: Springer US Publication date: 10/31/1989 Series: Developments in Veterinary Virology , #10 Edition description: 1990 Pages: 190 Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d) G. Petursson and Rikke Hoff-J0rgensen The concept of slow viral infections was first put forward in 1954 by Dr. Bjorn Sigurdsson, an Icelandic physician who had been studying some sheep diseases which were introduced into Iceland with the importation of a foreign breed of sheep in 1933. Sigurdsson's main criteria for defining slow infec­ tions were a very long initial period without clinical signs lasting months or even years following infection and a rather regular protracted, progres­ sive course, once clinical symptoms had appeared, usually ending in serious disease or death. Sigurdsson included in this list of slow infections maedi -visna, infectious adenomatosis of sheep, scrapie in sheep, Bittner's mam­ mary carcinoma and Gross' leukemia in mice. All of these diseases, exc