| behavior alterations in tree shrews (tupaia glis, diard 1820) induced by borna disease virus. | intracerebral injection of borna disease virus in tree shrews led to a persistent infection that sometimes resulted in clinical symptoms and/or specific alterations in the animals' behavior. whereas infective virus in the brain and in the serum antibodies were always present after infection, only some of the animals showed signs of clinical disease and behavior changes. animals kept in pairs showed especially obvious behavior alterations expressed as an exaggeration of all the components of norm ... | 1978 | 566371 |
| [borna virus infection (borna disease) in naturally and experimentally infected animals: its significance for research and practice]. | in this survey article on borna disease-many years after the review of zwick (1939)-again a modern comprehensive summary of "borna disease virus infection" is given. the infection occurs in horses and sheep, furthermore, in laboratory animal species inoculated experimentally; its clinical, virological and neuropathological features have been described in numerous presentations. clinical symptoms in naturally and experimentally infected animals are characterized by initial alterations in the sens ... | 1985 | 3834641 |
| borna disease virus: new aspects on infection, disease, diagnosis and epidemiology. | a 'disease of the head' affecting horses, as described in the 17th century is now known as borna disease. research over the past 100 years has established that the aetiological agent, borna disease virus (bdv), is an unsegmented, single- and negative-stranded, enveloped ribonucleic acid (rna) virus which represents the family bornaviridae in the order mononegavirales. the virus exists world-wide in horses, sheep, cattle, cats, dogs and ostriches. the infection can be fatal, but the majority of c ... | 2000 | 11189720 |