• BOLA-DRB3 gene polymorphisms influence bovine leukaemia virus infection levels in Holstein and Holstein × Jersey crossbreed dairy cattle 

      Carignano, Hugo Adrian; Beribe, Maria Jose; Caffaro, Marí­a Eugenia; Amadio, Ariel; Nani, Juan Pablo; Gutierrez, Gerónimo; Alvarez, Irene; Trono, Karina Gabriela; Miretti, Marcos Mateo; Poli, Mario Andres (2017-05)
      Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) infections, causing persistent lymphocytosis and lethal lymphosarcoma in cattle, have reached high endemicity on dairy farms. We observed extensive inter-individual variation in the level of ...
    • Bovine leukemia virus becomes established in dairy herds before the first lactation 

      Merlini, Ramiro; Gutierrez, Gerónimo; Alvarez, Irene; Jaworski, Juan Pablo; Carignano, Hugo Adrian; Poli, Mario Andres; Willems, Luc; Trono, Karina Gabriela (2016)
      In this work, we studied seven groups of pregnant heifers from a consortium of dairy farms heavily infected with bovine leukemia virus (BLV). ELISA testing showed that the seroprevalence ranges of BLV in heifers between ...
    • Genome-wide scan for commons SNPs affecting bovine leukemia virus infection level in dairy cattle 

      Carignano, Hugo Adrian; Roldan, Dana Leticia; Beribe, Maria Jose; Raschia, Maria Agustina; Amadio, Ariel; Nani, Juan Pablo; Gutierrez, Gerónimo; Alvarez, Irene; Trono, Karina Gabriela; Poli, Mario Andres; Miretti, Marcos Mateo (2018-02-13)
      Background: Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) infection is omnipresent in dairy herds causing direct economic losses due to trade restrictions and lymphosarcoma-related deaths. Milk production drops and increase in the culling ...