An isolated epizootic of hemorrhagic-like fever in cats caused by a novel and highly virulent strain of feline calicivirus

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 281-300

  Pedersen, N C ^a   Elliott, J B ^b   Glasgow, A ^a   Poland, A ^a   Keel, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 6420 Freeport Blvd   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat; Feline calicivirus

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNIZATION; LABORATORY INFECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PANCREATITIS; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CALICIVIRUS, FELINE; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, VIRAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; KIDNEY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SKIN; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CALICIVIRIDAE; FELIDAE; FELINE CALICIVIRUS; FELIS CATUS; MIRIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0034636393     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1135(00)00183-8     Document Type: Article

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