Effect of diethylcarbamazine on serum antibodies to feline infectious peritonitis in cats
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Treatment of cats with feline infectious peritonitis.
Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) infection resulting in clinical signs is invariably fatal despite clinical intervention. As FIP is an immune-mediated disease, treatment is mainly aimed at controlling the immune response triggered by the infection with the feline coronavirus (FCoV). Immune suppressive drugs such as prednisone or cyclophosphamide may slow disease progression but do not produc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Vaccine
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0264-410X
DOI: 10.1016/0264-410x(88)90005-9