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4.1 Immune response
Cellular and humoral immune response...
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4.2 Immunosuppression
BVD virus has an immunosuppressive effect and thereby encourages infections with secondary or opportunistic pathogens...
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4.3 Immune evasion
The animals infected with an ncp virus between around days 40 to 120 of gestation remain infected and do not develop any neutralizing or non-neutralizing antibodies. The reason for this lack of immune response lies in the stage of maturity of the immune system at the time of infection...
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4.4 Interferon
Interferons are species specific proteins which are able to protect body cells from virus infection. They are one of the body's first antiviral defence mechanisms, therefore most of viruses developed counter strategies against interferon...
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