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Infections with feline leukaemia virus detected upon post‐mortem examination
Author(s) -
REINACHER MANFRED
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
journal of small animal practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1748-5827
pISSN - 0022-4510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5827.1987.tb01279.x
Subject(s) - feline infectious peritonitis , leucosis , medicine , cats , feline leukemia virus , peritonitis , population , pathology , immunology , virology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virus , covid-19 , environmental health
SUMMARY Cats submitted for post‐mortem examination have been studied for persistent FeLV infection using immune histological methods. Persistent FeLV infection turned out to cause the most frequent lethal infectious disease of the cat. In the post‐mortem material, 16 per cent of the cats were found positive whereas 3 per cent can be assumed for the normal feline population. FeLV‐positive animals die from FeLV‐associated non‐tumourous conditions in 75 per cent of the cases rather than from leucosis. The most important non‐tumourous conditions are anaemia, feline infectious peritonitis, inflammation of the respiratory tract and liver degeneration. Important differences have been found between the various forms of leucosis which can also be distinguished in the small animal practice concerning their association with FeLV infection. Variations between 20 and 90 per cent have been found.