PMID- 15507299 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20041229 LR - 20181130 IS - 0165-2427 (Print) IS - 0165-2427 (Linking) VI - 102 IP - 3 DP - 2004 Dec 8 TI - The immune response to equine arteritis virus: potential lessons for other arteriviruses. PG - 107-29 AB - The members of the family Arteriviridae, genus Arterivirus, include equine arteritis virus (EAV), porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), lactate dehydrogenase-elevating virus (LDV) of mice, and simian hemorrhagic fever virus (SHFV). PRRSV is the newest member of the family (first isolated in North America and Europe in the early 1990s), whereas the other three viruses were recognized earlier (EAV in 1953, LDV in 1960, and SHFV in 1964). Although arterivirus infections are strictly species-specific, the causative agents share many biological and molecular properties, including their virion morphology, replication strategy, unique properties of their structural proteins, and their ability to establish distinctive persistent infections in their natural hosts. The arteriviruses are each antigenically distinct and cause different disease syndromes in their natural hosts. Similarly, the mechanism(s) responsible for the prolonged and/or persistent infections that characterize infections with each arterivirus in their natural hosts are remarkably different. The objective of this review is to compare and contrast the immune response to EAV with that to the other three arteriviruses, and emphasize the potential relevance of apparent similarities and differences in the neutralization characteristics of each virus. FAU - Balasuriya, Udeni B R AU - Balasuriya UB AD - Equine Viral Disease Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. ubbalasuriya@ucdavis.edu FAU - MacLachlan, N James AU - MacLachlan NJ LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. PT - Review PL - Netherlands TA - Vet Immunol Immunopathol JT - Veterinary immunology and immunopathology JID - 8002006 RN - 0 (Vaccines, Synthetic) RN - 0 (Viral Vaccines) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Arterivirus Infections/immunology/*veterinary MH - Equartevirus/*immunology MH - Genetic Engineering/veterinary MH - Horse Diseases/*immunology MH - Horses/immunology MH - Vaccines, Synthetic/immunology MH - Viral Vaccines/immunology RF - 171 EDAT- 2004/10/28 09:00 MHDA- 2004/12/30 09:00 CRDT- 2004/10/28 09:00 PHST- 2004/10/28 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/12/30 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/10/28 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0165-2427(04)00233-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.vetimm.2004.09.003 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 2004 Dec 8;102(3):107-29. doi: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2004.09.003.