| varied prevalence of borna disease virus infection in arabic, thoroughbred and their cross-bred horses in iran. | borna disease virus (bdv) naturally infects horses and sheep and induces progressive poliomeningoencephalomyelitis. here, bdv recombinant proteins of the first open reading frame (orf-i; coding for p40 nucleoprotein) and the second orf-ii (coding for p24 polymerase cofactor) were immunoblotted with plasma derived from 72 healthy (28 arabic, 17 thoroughbred and 27 cross-bred) race horses at tehran in iran to detect anti-bdv antibodies. in addition, their peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmcs) ... | 1996 | 8896237 |