Leucosis

For human beings, see Leukemia.

Leucosis is a leukemia-like malignant viral disease that is found in animals, particularly poultry and cattle.

Types of leucosis

• Bovine leucosis
  • Enzootic bovine leucosis, caused by bovine leukemia virus.^[1]
  • Sporadic bovine leucosis
  • Calf lymphosarcoma
• Leucosis in pig
• Leucosis in horses
• Leucosis in sheep ^[2]
• Feline leucosis
  • Feline leukemia virus
• Avian leucosis and related diseases
  • Avian sarcoma leukosis virus
    • Lymphoid leucosis
    • Erythroblastosis
    • Osteopetrosis
    • Myeloblastose
    • Myelocytomatosis^[3]

References

1. Mahy, Brian W.J. (2009). "Bovine leukemia virus". The dictionary of virology (4th ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press. pp. 61-62. ISBN 9780080920368.
2. D.C. Blood; J.A. Henderson; O.M. Radostits (1979). Veterinary Medicine (5th ed.). London: Baillière Tindall. pp. 611–612. ISBN 0-7020-0718-8.
3. H. Graham Purchase and L.N. Payne, Leukosis/sarcoma Group, in Diseases of poultry, ed. by M.S. Hofstad, Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, USA ISBN 0-8138-0430-2, p. 360-405