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Emerging Viruses in the Felidae: Shifting Paradigms

Viruses, 2012
The domestic cat is afflicted with multiple viruses that serve as powerful models for human disease including cancers, SARS and HIV/AIDS. Cat viruses that cause these diseases have been studied for decades revealing detailed insight concerning ...
Meredith A. Brown, Jill Pecon-Slattery, Melody E. Roelke, Agostinho Antunes, Warren E. Johnson, Jennifer L. Troyer, Stephen J. O’Brien   +6 more
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Animal shelter management of feline leukemia virus and feline immunodeficiency virus infections in cats

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023
Approximately 5% of cats in animal shelters in the United States test positive for either feline leukemia virus (FeLV) or feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), which translates to more than 100,000 positive cats managed by shelters each year.
Paola Dezubiria, E. Susan Amirian, Keegan Spera, P. Cynda Crawford, Julie K. Levy   +4 more
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Agarose gel serum protein electrophoresis in cats with and without lymphoma and preliminary results of tandem mass fingerprinting analysis [PDF]

, 2011
<b>Background</b>: Serum electrophoretic profiles in cats are poorly characterized with respect to the protein components of the globulin fractions, and interpretation of the electrophoretograms has routinely been done in ignorance of the ...
Baker, Bence, Bing, Ceron, Cerón, Choi-Miura, Correa, Corzo, Dust, Eckersall, Furukawa, Giordano, González-Ramón, Hahn, Hofmann-Lehmann, Jeppsson, Keay, Kristensen, Lampreave, Laurell, MacEwen, McGrotty, Merlo, Moore, Nielsen, Ogilvie, Paltrinieri, Paltrinieri, Prenni, Roman, Saguchi, Selting, Sparkes, Stockham, Vail, Vavricka, Wiechselbaum   +36 more
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BET Inhibitor JQ1 Attenuates Feline Leukemia Virus DNA, Provirus, and Antigen Production in Domestic Cat Cell Lines

Viruses, 2023
Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is a cosmopolitan gammaretrovirus that causes lifelong infections and fatal diseases, including leukemias, lymphomas, immunodeficiencies, and anemias, in domestic and wild felids.
Garrick M. Moll, Cheryl L. Swenson, Vilma Yuzbasiyan-Gurkan   +2 more
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Serological Detection of Viral Infections in Captive Wild Cats from Costa Rica

Veterinary Medicine International, 2011
Serum samples from a total of 44 wildcats, 28 margays (Leopardus wiedii), 10 ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), four jaguaroundis (Herpailurus yaguaroundi), one oncilla (Leopardus tigrina), and one jaguar (Panthera onca) were obtained between January 2001 and
Kinndle Blanco, Roberto Peña, Carmen Hernández, Mauricio Jiménez, Luis Nazario Araya, Juan José Romero, Gaby Dolz   +6 more
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Rapid and sensitive insulated isothermal PCR for point-of-need feline leukaemia virus detection [PDF]

, 2017
Objectives: Feline leukaemia virus (FeLV), a gamma retrovirus, causes diseases of the feline haematopoietic system that are invariably fatal. Rapid and accurate testing at the point-of-need (PON) supports prevention of virus spread and management of ...
Anis, Eman, Chang, Hsiao-Fen G., Dunbar, Dawn, Graham, Elizabeth M., Lee, Fu-Chun, Lee, Pei-Yu A., Tsai, Yun-Long, Wang, Hwa-Tang T., Wilkes, Rebecca P.   +8 more
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Diagnosis of Feline Leukemia Virus and Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Infections

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 1989
Feline leukemia virus is an oncogenic retrovirus that can result in a wide variety of neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases, including immunosuppression. Diagnosis of FeLV infection can be achieved by several methods, including virus isolation; IFA assay of a peripheral blood smear; and detection of a viral protein (called p27) by ELISA testing of ...
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Lecturer, Department of Veterinary Paraclinical Sciences, University of Melbourne, School of Veterinary Science, Werribee, Victoria, Australia ( host institution ), Parry, Bruce W. ( author ), Holloway, Steven A. ( author ), Studdert, Michael J. ( author )   +4 more
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Retrovirus Infections and Brazilian Wild Felids

Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Pathology, 2008
Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) and Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) are two retroviruses that are deadly to the domestic cat (Felis catus) and important to the conservation of the threatened wild felids worldwide.
Claudia Filoni, José Luiz Catão-Dias, Hans Lutz, Regina Hofmann-Lehmann   +3 more
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Feline Lymphoma in the Post-Feline Leukemia Virus Era

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2005
Lymphoma (lymphosarcoma or malignant lymphoma) is the most common neoplasm of the hematopoietic system of cats and reportedly the cat has the highest incidence for lymphoma of any species. A 21-year retrospective survey of feline lymphoma covering the period 1983-2003 was conducted with the patient database at the Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital (
Louwerens, M., London, C.A., Pedersen, N.C., Lyons, L.A.   +3 more
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The frequency of occurrence and nature of recombinant feline leukemia viruses in the induction of multicentric lymphoma by infection of the domestic cat with FeLV-945 [PDF]

, 1970
During feline leukemia virus (FeLV) infection in the domestic cat, viruses with a novel envelope gene arise by recombination between endogenous FeLV-related elements and the exogenous infecting species. These recombinant viruses (FeLV-B) are of uncertain
Ahmad, Shamim, Levy, Laura S.
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