Introduction AGP (Alpha1-acid glycoprotein) is considered one of the major acute phase proteins in cats. In humans, AGP is a heavily glycosylated protein that undergoes several modifications of its glycan moiety during acute and chronic inflammatory pathologies. In this communication we present the feline AGP’s glycan moiety modifications in the course of two very frequent feline diseases, the ...

A synthetic feline TRIM5-cyclophilin A fusion protein (feTRIMCyp) was generated and transduced into feline cells. feTRIMCyp was highly efficient at preventing infection with human (HIV) and feline (FIV) immunodeficiency virus pseudotypes, and feTRIMCyp-expressing cells resisted productive infection with either FIV-Fca or FIV-Pco. The restriction of FIV infection by feTRIMCyp was reversed by the...

A serosurvey of feline herpesvirus type 1 (FHV-1), feline calicivirus (FCV), and feline parvovirus (FPV) in cats from Ho Chi Minh City area in southern Vietnam was conducted in December 1998, and we compared the results with our previous results in northern Vietnam (Hanoi area). The positive rate of FHV and FCV in domestic cats were 44% and 74%, respectively. They were rather higher than those ...

Negative FIV-antibody test results remain reliable (see the 2001 Report of the AAFP/AFM Advisory Panel on Feline Retrovirus Testing and Management at www.aafponline.org/resources/guidelines/Felv_FIV_Guidelines.pdf. But until tests that differentiate vaccinated cats from infected cats become readily available, it will be impossible to assess the significance of positive test results. (Is a posit...

Feline panleukopenia (FP) is a severe viral illness caused by the feline virus (FPV), putting sectors like companion cat breeding and endangered conservation at risk. The has high morbidity fatality rate found all over world. We created novel FPV assay using nanoPCR technology assessed method’s specificity sensitivity. approach amplified 345 bp nucleic acid fragment with minimum detection limit...

Feline Panleukopenia (FP) is highly infectious disease for felidae kingdom but has not been found in human. FP caused by feline panleukopenia virus (FPV) from the parvoviridae family. FPV a very high mortality and morbidity rates. symptoms this fever, appetite loss, vomit which occur hypersalivation. Most cases happen on stray cat. The growing population of cat can increase risk FPV. aim study ...

Norovirus (NoV) RNA was detected in the stools of 6 out 14 (42.8%) 8-12-week-old cats with enteritis from a feline shelter, in New York State. Upon sequence analysis of the complete capsid, the six NoVs were found to be identical, suggesting the spread of a unique NoV strain in the shelter. The full-length genomic sequence (7839 nt) of one feline NoV, CU081210E/2010/US, was determined. In the c...

A lamellar keratoplasty was used to treat corneal sequestrum in four Persian cats (six eyes). Following a superficial keratectomy, lamellar corneal allografts (feline corneal tissue) or heterografts (canine corneal tissue) which had been preserved at -20 degrees C were placed in the recipient cornea. All grafts became optically transparent within 2 months following surgery and no recurrences of...

The variable domains of antigen receptors are very diverse and assembled in a modular system from a number of V-, D-, and J-region genes. Here we describe additional variants of V- and J-region genes of the feline T-cell receptor gamma (TRG) as well as the corresponding RSSs retrieved from Trace Archive of feline genomic sequences. Additionally, an unusually recombined TRGV-domain containing a ...