Blood leucocytes, sediments of uterine flush fluid (UFF), eggs and embryos from 25 BLV-positive donor cows were tested for bovine leukemia (BLV) and bovine syncytial (BSV) viruses by cocultivation with fetal lamb spleen cells and by applying syncytium induction and immunofluorescence tests. BLV was diagnosed in 11/15 (73.3%) leucocyte and 4/25 (16.0%) UFF-sediment specimens as compared to BSV in 14/15 (93.3%) and 21/25 (84.0%) of the similar specimens and neither BLV or BSV were found in 26 eggs and 60 embryos collected from 20 of the 25 cows. Detection of BLV antigens by immunofluorescence was hampered by the competitive replication of both BLV and BSV and competitive growth in indicator cells and uterine cells. As BLV has not been observed in cells of UFF sediments, it was probably isolated from leucocytes present in the lumen of uterus or from blood seeping out from inapparent vessel damage during flushing. Isolation of BLV in UFF sediments gives additional evidence to the concept of a transplacental transmission by a not yet elucidated mechanism. The high rate of BSV recovery from cells of UFF sediments indicated that this virus is more wide-spread than previously shown and that it may play a role in causing disorders of the reproductive tract.
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