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How a tame virus turns deadly for cats
CORNELL (US) ? Scientists have uncovered the mutation that transforms a harmless virus into what is the most lethal infectious disease in cats.
The finding is expected to open the door to the development of the first working diagnostics, vaccines, and treatments for the disease, feline infectious peritonitis (FIP).
FIP develops when feline enteric coronavirus (FECV), a common benign intestinal virus, mutates into the malignant FIPV virus...
How a tame virus turns deadly for cats
CORNELL (US) ? Scientists have uncovered the mutation that transforms a harmless virus into what is the most lethal infectious disease in cats.
The finding is expected to open the door to the development of the first working diagnostics, vaccines, and treatments for the disease, feline infectious peritonitis (FIP).
FIP develops when feline enteric coronavirus (FECV), a common benign intestinal virus, mutates into the malignant FIPV virus...