| Literature DB >> 22491466 |
Gergely Tekes1, Danica Spies, Barbara Bank-Wolf, Volker Thiel, Heinz-Jürgen Thiel.
Abstract
Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is a lethal immunopathological disease caused by feline coronaviruses (FCoVs). Here, we describe a reverse genetics approach to study FIP by assessing the pathogenicity of recombinant type I and type II and chimeric type I/type II FCoVs. All recombinant FCoVs established productive infection in cats, and recombinant type II FCoV (strain 79-1146) induced FIP. Virus sequence analyses from FIP-diseased cats revealed that the 3c gene stop codon of strain 79-1146 has changed to restore a full-length open reading frame (ORF).Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22491466 PMCID: PMC3393577 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00023-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103