Anti-inflammatory therapy for Feline Immunodeficiency Virus infection and associated AIDS-like syndrome
Arne Lucas Ten Hoeve*, Arden Leander van ArnhemOpinion, Front. Microbio. 2011;2:157"Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a lentivirus that can infect several feline species, among them the domestic cat. Related lentiviruses are prevalent in non-domestic felids (Olmsted et al., 1992). The isolation of FIV from cats who while having an immunodeficiency-like illness were seronegative for Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV), was first described in 1987 (Pedersen et al., 1987). FIV is classified into five phylogenetic subtypes, A through E, according to the ..."
Keywords: anti-inflammatory therapy, feline AIDS, FIV, immunosuppressive therapy
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