maedin.

1952 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 90 233/2 The first signs of maedi are usually a slowly advancing listlessness and loss of condition.

1965 Res. Vet. Sci. 6 456 Visna and maedi are virus diseases in sheep which were prevalent in Iceland from approximately 1935 to 1951.

1974 Progress Med. Virol. 18 336 Maedi was first identified by Gíslason in 1939 in a remote northern district, where neither visna nor adenomatosis was found.

1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) iii. 368 Visna is a CNS disease (meningoleucoencephalitis), while maedi is a slowly progressive pneumonia.

1998 Small Ruminant Res. 27 1 Lentiviruses, a genus of retroviruses, include the agents that cause ovine progressive pneumonia or maedi.

1971 Jrnl. Virol. 7 301 Progressive pneumonia virus, the causative agent of slow, pulmonary disease of Montana sheep, was shown to be antigenically related to two other slow viruses of sheep, visna and maedi.

1972 Jrnl. Virol. 10 228 (title) Properties of maedi nucleic acid and the presence of ribonucleic acid- and deoxyribonucleic acid-dependent deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase in the virions.

1972 Deutsche Tierärztliche Wochenschr. 79 12/2 The occurrence of Maedi/Visna in a flock of Mouton/Merino sheep is reported.

1992 Farmers Guardian 7 Aug. (Classified) 16/3 (advt.) Lambs are all from noted flocks, several have been monitored (negative) under the D.O.A.S. and A.D.A.S. Health Scheme for Maedi Visna and Enzootic Abortion.

1973 C. Terpstra & G. F. De Boer in Archiv f. Gesamte Virusforschung 43 54 Sheep intrapulmonarily infected with visna virus develop maedi... Hence it was concluded that the name maedi-visna virus may be used.

1983 Austral. Vet. Jrnl. 60 321 Goats inoculated with one of the viruses produced serum antibody that cross-reacted in ELISA using maedi-visna virus and virus 151 as antigens.

1996 Vet. Immunol. & Immunopathol. 55 115 A model of experimental infection with EV1, a British isolate of maedi-visna virus (MVV), has been developed.