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Feline congenital myotonia
Author(s) -
Toll Jeffrey,
Cooper Barry
Publication year - 1998
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.1748-5827.1998.tb03690.x
Subject(s) - feline infectious peritonitis , virology , coronavirus , enteritis , vasculitis , medicine , virulence , immunology , covid-19 , pathology , biology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biochemistry , gene
FELINE infections peritonitis (FIP) is a systemic, fatal, immune‐mediated vasculitis caused by a feline coronavirus (FCoV). Historically, FIP virus (FIPV) and feline enteritis by a feline enteric coronavirus (FECV). Recent studies have shown that there is essentially only one FCoV in the field, although laboratory strains may vary in virulence.