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A multi-national European cross-sectional study of feline calicivirus epidemiology, diversity and vaccine cross-reactivity.
Vaccine - 9 May 2017
Afonso Maria M, Pinchbeck Gina L, Smith Shirley L, Daly Janet M, Gaskell Rosalind M, Dawson Susan, Radford Alan D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Feline calicivirus (FCV) is an important pathogen of cats for which vaccination is regularly practised. Long-term use of established vaccine antigens raises the theoretical possibility that field viruses could become resistant. This study aimed to assess the current ability of the FCV-F9 vaccine strain to neutralise a randomly collected contemporary panel of FCV field strains collected prospectively...
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