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Phylogeographic patterns of feline immunodeficiency virus genetic diversity in the domestic cat.
Virology - 25 Nov 1998
Carpenter M A, Brown E W, MacDonald D W, O'brien S J
Abstract excerpt
Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) has a worldwide distribution among feral and domesticated cats and in many cases induces immunodeficiency disease analogous to that of human acquired immune deficiency syndrome. FIV is genetically homologous to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in both genome organization and gene sequence and, like HIV, exhibits enormous sequence variation throughout the range of host...
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