Lecture 15 Flashcards
1
Q
What are the three diseases that bovine viral diarrhoea disease causes?
A
- Bovine Diarrhoea disease
- Persistant infection
- Mucosal disease
2
Q
What is the gene present within the cytopathic strain of bovine viral diarrhoea disease?
A
P80 disease
3
Q
What is the clinical outcome of bovine viral diarrhoea disease between second to fourth month of pregnancy?
A
It will identify bovine viral diarrhoea disease as itself and a as a result will be persistently infected
4
Q
What is the quasivirus principle?
A
RNA viruses have a high RNA replication defect rate and as a result produce many variants, explaining the high levels of defects that are often observed
