[Ultrastructural characteristics of virus-producing lymphocytes in bovine leukemia].

The ultrastructure of peripheral lymphocytes and lymph was examined in 35 head of cattle in health and chronic lymphoid leukemia. In the latter, ultrastructural alterations were detected in the nuclei and cytoplasmic organelles. The alterations appeared as Golgi apparatus hypertrophy, mitochondrial polymorphism, myelinoid formations.

[Electron microscopic, serological and hematological research on lambs infected with the bovine leukemia virus].

A complex study on experimental oncornavirus infection in sheep was carried out. Fast development of infectious process, production of virus-specific precipitating antibodies, presence of BLV reproduction in cultivated leucocytes were found. Terms of antibody appearance ranged between 20-30 days after infection.