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Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA), also known as ovine pulmonary adenomatosis, or jaagsiekte, is a chronic and contagious disease of the lungs of sheep and goats. OPA is caused by a retrovirus called jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV).
JSRV is the virus that is the cause of the contagious lung tumors in sheep called ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA). The disease has also been called "jaagsiekte", after the Afrikaans words for "chase" (jaag) and "sickness" (siekte), to describe the respiratory distress observed in an animal out of breath from being chased, indicating the breathing difficulty experienced by infected sheep.
The disease, enzootic nasal adenocarcinoma is common in North America and is found in sheep and goats on every continent except New Zealand and Australia. [5] There are more than 27 betaretroviruses similar to ENVT and JSRV in the ovine genome. [6] [7] In the future, research on ENTV may become important in studying viruses that cause human ...
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MeSH C22.836.583 – nairobi sheep disease MeSH C22.836.660 – pneumonia, progressive interstitial, of sheep MeSH C22.836.715 – pulmonary adenomatosis, ovine