Journal
EQUINE VETERINARY JOURNAL
Volume 44, Issue 1, Pages 107-111Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.2042-3306.2011.00390.x
Keywords
horse; bovine papillomavirus; sarcoid; vaccine; virus-like particles
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- AVIR Green Hills Biotechnology, Vienna
- Centre for Innovation and Technology of the City of Vienna (ZIT), Austria
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Reasons for performing study: Infection with bovine papillomaviruses types 1 and 2 (BPV-1, BPV-2) can lead to the development of therapy-resistant skin tumours termed sarcoids and possibly other skin diseases in equids. Although sarcoids seriously compromise the welfare of affected animals and cause considerable economic losses, no prophylactic vaccine is available to prevent this common disease. In several animal species and man, immunisation with papillomavirus-like particles (VLP) has been shown to protect efficiently from papillomaviral infection.
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