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Feline Coronaviruses: Pathogenesis of Feline Infectious Peritonitis.
Advances in virus research - 1 Jan 2016
Tekes G, Thiel H-J
Abstract excerpt
Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) belongs to the few animal virus diseases in which, in the course of a generally harmless persistent infection, a virus acquires a small number of mutations that fundamentally change its pathogenicity, invariably resulting in a fatal outcome. The causative agent of this deadly disease, feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV), arises from feline enteric coronavirus (FECV). The...
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