Cross-sectional quantitative RT-PCR study of feline coronavirus viremia and replication in peripheral blood of healthy shelter cats in Southern California

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 295-301

  Fish, Eric J ^a,b   Diniz, Pedro Paulo V P ^a   Juan, Yen Chen ^b   Bossong, Frank ^a   Collisson, Ellen W ^a   Drechsler, Yvonne ^a   Kaltenboeck, Bernhard ^b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FELINE INFECTIOUS PERITONITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; M GENE; MALE; MRNA EXPRESSION ASSAY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; VIREMIA; ANIMAL; CALIFORNIA; FECES; FELINE CORONAVIRUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATS; CORONAVIRUS, FELINE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FELINE INFECTIOUS PERITONITIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIREMIA;

EID: 85042427855     PISSN: 1098612X     EISSN: 15322750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1098612X17705227     Document Type: Article

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