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Bovine leukemia virus p24 antibodies reflect blood proviral load

BACKGROUND: Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is worldwide distributed and highly endemic in Argentina. Among the strategies to prevent BLV dissemination, a control plan based on the selective segregation of animals according to their proviral load (PVL) is promising for our dairy productive system. The o...

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Autores principales: Gutiérrez, Gerónimo, Carignano, Hugo, Alvarez, Irene, Martínez, Cecilia, Porta, Natalia, Politzki, Romina, Gammella, Mariela, Lomonaco, Marina, Fondevila, Norberto, Poli, Mario, Trono, Karina
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3526540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23047073
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-6148-8-187
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author Gutiérrez, Gerónimo
Carignano, Hugo
Alvarez, Irene
Martínez, Cecilia
Porta, Natalia
Politzki, Romina
Gammella, Mariela
Lomonaco, Marina
Fondevila, Norberto
Poli, Mario
Trono, Karina
author_facet Gutiérrez, Gerónimo
Carignano, Hugo
Alvarez, Irene
Martínez, Cecilia
Porta, Natalia
Politzki, Romina
Gammella, Mariela
Lomonaco, Marina
Fondevila, Norberto
Poli, Mario
Trono, Karina
author_sort Gutiérrez, Gerónimo
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is worldwide distributed and highly endemic in Argentina. Among the strategies to prevent BLV dissemination, a control plan based on the selective segregation of animals according to their proviral load (PVL) is promising for our dairy productive system. The objective of this work was to study the relationship between the blood PVL and the antibody level, in order to identify whether the individual humoral response, i.e. the anti-p24 or anti-whole-BLV particle, could be used as a marker of the blood level of infection and thus help to recruit animals that may pose a lower risk of dissemination under natural conditions. RESULTS: The prevalence of p24 antibodies on the 15 farms studied was over 66%. The prevalence of p24 and whole-BLV antibodies and PVL quantification were analyzed in all the samples (n = 196) taken from herds T1 and 51. ROC analysis showed a higher AUC for p24 antibodies than whole-BLV antibodies (Z(reactivity): 3.55, P < 0.001; Z(titer): 2.88, P < 0.01), and as consequence a better performance to predict the proviral load status in herd 51. No significant differences were found between the performance of p24 and whole-BLV antibodies in herd T1. A significant positive correlation was observed between PVL values and p24 antibody reactivity in both farms (r (T1) = 0.7, P < 0.001, r (51) = 0.71, P < 0.0001). The analysis was extended to the whole number of weak p24 antibody reactors (n = 311) of the other 13 farms. The mean of high PVL reactors within weak p24 reactors was 17.38% (SD = 8.92). In 5/15 farms, the number of weak p24 reactors with high PVL was lower than 10%. CONCLUSIONS: We found that the humoral response reflected the level of in vivo infection, and may therefore have useful epidemiological applications. Whereas the quantitative evaluation of blood proviral load using real-time PCR is expensive and technically demanding, the measurement of antibodies in blood by ELISA is relatively straightforward and could therefore constitute a cost-effective tool in a BLV control intervention strategy, especially in highly infected herds such as Argentinean dairy ones.
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spelling pubmed-35265402012-12-20 Bovine leukemia virus p24 antibodies reflect blood proviral load Gutiérrez, Gerónimo Carignano, Hugo Alvarez, Irene Martínez, Cecilia Porta, Natalia Politzki, Romina Gammella, Mariela Lomonaco, Marina Fondevila, Norberto Poli, Mario Trono, Karina BMC Vet Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is worldwide distributed and highly endemic in Argentina. Among the strategies to prevent BLV dissemination, a control plan based on the selective segregation of animals according to their proviral load (PVL) is promising for our dairy productive system. The objective of this work was to study the relationship between the blood PVL and the antibody level, in order to identify whether the individual humoral response, i.e. the anti-p24 or anti-whole-BLV particle, could be used as a marker of the blood level of infection and thus help to recruit animals that may pose a lower risk of dissemination under natural conditions. RESULTS: The prevalence of p24 antibodies on the 15 farms studied was over 66%. The prevalence of p24 and whole-BLV antibodies and PVL quantification were analyzed in all the samples (n = 196) taken from herds T1 and 51. ROC analysis showed a higher AUC for p24 antibodies than whole-BLV antibodies (Z(reactivity): 3.55, P < 0.001; Z(titer): 2.88, P < 0.01), and as consequence a better performance to predict the proviral load status in herd 51. No significant differences were found between the performance of p24 and whole-BLV antibodies in herd T1. A significant positive correlation was observed between PVL values and p24 antibody reactivity in both farms (r (T1) = 0.7, P < 0.001, r (51) = 0.71, P < 0.0001). The analysis was extended to the whole number of weak p24 antibody reactors (n = 311) of the other 13 farms. The mean of high PVL reactors within weak p24 reactors was 17.38% (SD = 8.92). In 5/15 farms, the number of weak p24 reactors with high PVL was lower than 10%. CONCLUSIONS: We found that the humoral response reflected the level of in vivo infection, and may therefore have useful epidemiological applications. Whereas the quantitative evaluation of blood proviral load using real-time PCR is expensive and technically demanding, the measurement of antibodies in blood by ELISA is relatively straightforward and could therefore constitute a cost-effective tool in a BLV control intervention strategy, especially in highly infected herds such as Argentinean dairy ones. BioMed Central 2012-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3526540/ /pubmed/23047073 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-6148-8-187 Text en Copyright ©2012 Gutierrez et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gutiérrez, Gerónimo
Carignano, Hugo
Alvarez, Irene
Martínez, Cecilia
Porta, Natalia
Politzki, Romina
Gammella, Mariela
Lomonaco, Marina
Fondevila, Norberto
Poli, Mario
Trono, Karina
Bovine leukemia virus p24 antibodies reflect blood proviral load
title Bovine leukemia virus p24 antibodies reflect blood proviral load
title_full Bovine leukemia virus p24 antibodies reflect blood proviral load
title_fullStr Bovine leukemia virus p24 antibodies reflect blood proviral load
title_full_unstemmed Bovine leukemia virus p24 antibodies reflect blood proviral load
title_short Bovine leukemia virus p24 antibodies reflect blood proviral load
title_sort bovine leukemia virus p24 antibodies reflect blood proviral load
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3526540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23047073
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-6148-8-187
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