Mutations of 3c and spike protein genes correlate with the occurrence of feline infectious peritonitis

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 173, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 177-188

  Bank Wolf, Barbara Regina ^a   Stallkamp, Iris ^a,c   Wiese, Svenja ^a   Moritz, Andreas ^b   Tekes, Gergely ^a   Thiel, Heinz Jürgen ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^c TransMIT Gesellschaft fur Technologietransfer mbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accessory genes; FECV; Feline coronavirus; FIPV; Spike protein gene

Indexed keywords

M PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; VITRONECTIN; 3C PROTEASES; CORONAVIRUS SPIKE GLYCOPROTEIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; PRIMER DNA; VIRUS FUSION PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

3C GENE; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BIOTYPE; CAT; CORONAVIRUS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FELINE INFECTIOUS PERITONITIS; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; SPIKE PROTEIN GENE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; FELINE CORONAVIRUS; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORONAVIRUS, FELINE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA PRIMERS; FECES; FELINE INFECTIOUS PERITONITIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPIKE GLYCOPROTEIN, CORONAVIRUS; VIRAL FUSION PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84908226321     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2014.07.020     Document Type: Article

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