Fecal shedding of feline coronavirus in adult cats and kittens in an Abyssinian cattery

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 215, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 948-951

  Harpold, Lynn M ^a,b   Legendre, Alfred M ^a   Kennedy, Melissa A ^a   Plummer, Paul J ^a   Millsaps, Kent ^a   Rohrbach, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b Mesa Veterinary Hospital Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CORONAVIRUS; FECES; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; SUCKLING; VACCINATION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CORONAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; VACCINATION;

EID: 0033209898     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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