| Literature DB >> 12208990 |
Yuko Goto1, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Kenji Baba, Takuya Mizuno, Yasuyuki Endo, Kenichi Masuda, Koichi Ohno, Hajime Tsujimoto.
Abstract
We measured the quantity of plasma feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) RNA using a real-time sequence detecting system. Plasma viral RNA load was shown to correlate with the clinical stage, survival time, and disease progression in naturally FIV-infected cats. The present study indicates that the plasma viral RNA load can be used as a clinical marker representing the impairment of the immune system and predicting the clinical outcome in FIV-infected cats.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12208990 PMCID: PMC136479 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.19.10079-10083.2002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103