Abstract
Individual experimental animals used in our studies on bovine leukemia virus (BLV) are routinely screened for the presence of antibodies to the three bovine lymphotropic retroviruses. We utilized these screening methods to examine frozen sera from eight herds for antibodies to BLV, bovine visna virus (BVV) and bovine syncytial virus (BSV). Serum samples from 235 animals in four dairy and four beef herds were analyzed. Detection methods used included indirect fluorescent antibody tests of virus-infected cell cultures (BLV, BSV, BVV) and agar gel immunodiffusion (BLV). Sera from the BLV-infected animals in the dairy herds showed the highest single (50%, 49 97 ) and multiple (30%, 29 97 ) infections compared with 5% ( 7 138 ) and < 1% ( 1 138 ), respectively in the beef herds. Single BVV infections were not detected in the dairy herds, but 11% ( 11 97 ) of the sera contained antibodies to BVV plus BLV or BSV. Five sera from beef cattle had antibodies only to BVV and four were obtained from one herd. Only one beef serum of the 138 tested demonstrated multiple antibodies (BLV, BVV).
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