Maternal hematological and virological characteristics during early feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) infection of cats as predictors of fetal infection and reproductive outcome at early gestation

Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 131, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 290-297

  Boudreaux, Crystal E ^a   Lockett, Nikki N ^a   Chemerys, Daniellé N ^a   Clay, Brittany T ^a   Scott, Veronica L ^a   Willeford, Bridget ^b   Brown, Timothy ^b   Coats, Karen S ^a,b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CD4:CD8 T cell ratio; Feline immunodeficiency virus; Mother to child transmission; Pediatric AIDS; Plasma viremia; Provirus load

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LITTER SIZE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROVIRUS; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD;

ANIMALS; CATS; CD4-CD8 RATIO; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FELINE ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS, FELINE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RNA, VIRAL;

ANIMALIA; FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 70249136827     PISSN: 01652427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2009.04.011     Document Type: Article

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