Natural transmission of feline immunodeficiency virus from infected queen to kitten

BACKGROUND: Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a naturally occurring lentivirus that infects cats. The primary mode of transmission occurs through bite wounds, and other routes are difficult to observe in nature. FINDINGS: The purpose of this study was to evaluate FIV transmission from queen to...

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Autores principales: Medeiros, Sheila de Oliveira, Martins, Angelica Nascimento, Dias, Carlos Gabriel Almeida, Tanuri, Amilcar, Brindeiro, Rodrigo de Moraes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3439265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22632459
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-9-99
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author Medeiros, Sheila de Oliveira
Martins, Angelica Nascimento
Dias, Carlos Gabriel Almeida
Tanuri, Amilcar
Brindeiro, Rodrigo de Moraes
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Dias, Carlos Gabriel Almeida
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Brindeiro, Rodrigo de Moraes
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description BACKGROUND: Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a naturally occurring lentivirus that infects cats. The primary mode of transmission occurs through bite wounds, and other routes are difficult to observe in nature. FINDINGS: The purpose of this study was to evaluate FIV transmission from queen to kitten in a colony of naturally infected stray cats. With this aim, a queen was monitored over a period of three years. A blood sample was taken to amplify and sequence gag, pol and env regions of the virus from the queen, two kittens and other cats from the colony. CONCLUSION: Phylogenetic analysis showed evidence of queen to kitten transmission.
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spelling pubmed-34392652012-09-12 Natural transmission of feline immunodeficiency virus from infected queen to kitten Medeiros, Sheila de Oliveira Martins, Angelica Nascimento Dias, Carlos Gabriel Almeida Tanuri, Amilcar Brindeiro, Rodrigo de Moraes Virol J Short Report BACKGROUND: Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a naturally occurring lentivirus that infects cats. The primary mode of transmission occurs through bite wounds, and other routes are difficult to observe in nature. FINDINGS: The purpose of this study was to evaluate FIV transmission from queen to kitten in a colony of naturally infected stray cats. With this aim, a queen was monitored over a period of three years. A blood sample was taken to amplify and sequence gag, pol and env regions of the virus from the queen, two kittens and other cats from the colony. CONCLUSION: Phylogenetic analysis showed evidence of queen to kitten transmission. BioMed Central 2012-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3439265/ /pubmed/22632459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-9-99 Text en Copyright ©2012 Medeiros et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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