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Natural Borna disease virus infection in cats in the United Kingdom
Author(s) -
Reeves N. A.,
Helps C. R.,
GunnMoore D. A.,
Blundell C.,
Finnemore P. L.,
Pearson G. R.,
Harbour D. A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.143.19.523
Subject(s) - cats , virus , virology , disease , medicine , incidence (geometry) , biology , pathology , optics , physics
Borna disease virus (BDV) is a novel PNA virus that has only recently been characterised and classified in a new virus family, Bornaviridae. The virus was detected in buffy coat cells from four of five cats with neurological disease and in the brains of five of 15 cats with nervous signs and of one of three cats with non‐neurological disease. In a serosurvey of 111 cats the incidence of antibody to BDV in cats with neurological disease was higher than in cats with other types of disease, suggesting that the virus may play a role in nervous diseases of cats in the UK.