Neser, J.A.Kotze, C.Bigalke, R.D.2014-11-172014-11-1720141987Neser, JA & Kotze, C 1987, 'African swine fever. II. Functional disturbances of thrombocytes in pigs infected with virulent haemadsorbing and non-haemadsorbing virus isolates’, Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 147-155.0330-2465http://hdl.handle.net/2263/42637The articles have been scanned in colour with a HP Scanjet 5590; 600dpi. Adobe Acrobat XI Pro was used to OCR the text and also for the merging and conversion to the final presentation PDF-format.Increased bleeding time, impaired blood clot retraction and decreased thrombocyte aggregation were observed in pigs infected with virulent haemadsorbing and non-haemadsorbing African swine fever virus isolates. These changes appeared to be more frequent and more severe in pigs infected with the haemadsorbing virus isolates than in those infected with the non-haemadsorbing isolate. Moreover, the onset and severity of these changes followed the numerical decrease and morphological damage to these cells apparent in the last 2-3 days of the disease.en©ARC - Onderstepoort and Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (original). ©University of Pretoria. Dept. of Library Services (digital).Veterinary medicineVeterinary medicine -- South AfricaArticle