Dear Editor,Equine infectious anemia virus(EIAV)belongs to the macrophage-tropic lentiviruses family and infects mainly equines,including horses,donkeys and mules.EIAV shares many similar characteristics in its viral ...Dear Editor,Equine infectious anemia virus(EIAV)belongs to the macrophage-tropic lentiviruses family and infects mainly equines,including horses,donkeys and mules.EIAV shares many similar characteristics in its viral biology and host-virus immune regulation with other lentiviruses,such as human immunodeficiency virus type 1(HIV-1)and simian immunodeficiency virus(SIV),and has been accepted as a model for the study of other lentiviruses,especially HTV-1(Craigo and Montelaro 2013).Specifically,in the 1970s,Chinese scientists developed an attenuated EIAV vaccine and by using this vaccine,China has successfully controlled EIAV prevalence.This vaccine provides a meaningful reference for lentivirus research(Wang et al.2016).展开更多
基金supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31672578 to X-F W)the Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation Project (2015M571386 to X-F W)the Postdoctoral Foundation of Heilongjiang Province, China (LBH-Z14033)
文摘Dear Editor,Equine infectious anemia virus(EIAV)belongs to the macrophage-tropic lentiviruses family and infects mainly equines,including horses,donkeys and mules.EIAV shares many similar characteristics in its viral biology and host-virus immune regulation with other lentiviruses,such as human immunodeficiency virus type 1(HIV-1)and simian immunodeficiency virus(SIV),and has been accepted as a model for the study of other lentiviruses,especially HTV-1(Craigo and Montelaro 2013).Specifically,in the 1970s,Chinese scientists developed an attenuated EIAV vaccine and by using this vaccine,China has successfully controlled EIAV prevalence.This vaccine provides a meaningful reference for lentivirus research(Wang et al.2016).
