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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 133, No. 2: 164-176
Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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Factors Associated with Transmission of Bovine Leukemia Virus by Contact in Cows on a California Dairy

Matie-Liesse G. Lassauzet1,, Mark C. Thurmond1, Wesley O. Johnson2, Frednc Stevens3 and John P. Picanso1

1Vetennary Medicine Teaching arid Research Center, Department of Medicine, School of Vetennary Medicine, University of California Tulare, CA
2Division of Statistics, University of California Davis, CA
3Department of Epidemiclogy, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, CA

Reprint requests to Dr. Maiie-Uesse Lassauzet, Biovet Unit, Ciba-Geigy Limited, Centre de Recherches Agncoles, CH-1566 St-Aubio FR, Switzerland

A prospective study was undertaken on a California dairy from 1984 to 1987 to examine factors associated with contact transmission of bovine leukemia virus in cows. Two approaches were used to model the probability of infection. First, the expected number of new infections per pen-month was assumed to follow a binomial distribution. The probability of infection was modeled, using logistic regression, as a function of prevalence of infection in pen, presence of lactating cows, proportion of pregnant cows, presence of an infected bull, and proportion of Infected cows with a lymphocyte count above 10,000 cells/µl of blood and/or with M, 24,000 protein (p24) antibodies. The probability of infection was significantly associated with the prevalence of infection and at the limit of significance for presence of lactating cows in pen. Second, the Cox model with time-dependent covariates was used to analyze time from first partuntion or from the beginning of the study to infection. Factors examined were age, breed, lactation number, whether the cow was pregnant and/or lactating, prevalence of infection, presence of an infected bull, and density of cattle in the pen holding the cow. Non-pregnant cows were 2.9 times more at risk of infection than were pregnant cows, and risk of infection significantly increased as prevalence of infection in a pen increased. Am J Epidemiol 1991;133:164-76.

cattle; prospective studies; retroviridae


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