Insemination of cattle with semen from a bull transiently infected with pestivirus

Abstract

When 73 heifers (60 of which were seronegative to pestivirus) were inseminated with pestivirus-contaminated semen from a transiently bull, the conception rate to a single insemination was found to be normal (65 percent). Only three animals became systemically infected, as determined by viraemia and seroconversion.

Full article published in Veterinary Record (1997) 140, 124-127