What's new in feline leukemia virus infection

K Hartmann… - Veterinary Clinics: Small …, 2020 - vetsmall.theclinics.com
Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is one of the most common infectious agents in cats worldwide.
Prevalence and importance of FeLV have been decreasing over the past decades, primarily …

A retrospective examination of feline leukemia subgroup characterization: viral interference assays to deep sequencing

ES Chiu, EA Hoover, S VandeWoude - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) was the first feline retrovirus discovered, and is associated with
multiple fatal disease syndromes in cats, including lymphoma. The original research …

Prevalence and genomic sequence analysis of domestic cat hepadnavirus in the United States

C Stone, R Petch, RB Gagne, M Nehring, T Tu… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hepadnaviruses are partially double-stranded DNA viruses that infect a variety of species.
The prototypical virus in this family is the human hepatitis B virus, which chronically infects …

Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) endogenous and exogenous recombination events result in multiple FeLV-B subtypes during natural infection

K Erbeck, RB Gagne, S Kraberger, ES Chiu… - Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is associated with a range of clinical signs in felid species.
Differences in disease processes are closely related to genetic variation in the envelope …

A prospective epidemiological, clinical, and clinicopathologic study of feline leukemia virus and feline immunodeficiency virus infection in 435 cats from Greece

KG Kokkinaki, MN Saridomichelakis… - … and Infectious Diseases, 2021 - Elsevier
Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) are retroviruses
causing significant morbidity and mortality in cats. The aim of this study was to describe the …

Endogenous retroviruses drive resistance and promotion of exogenous retroviral homologs

ES Chiu, S VandeWoude - Annual Review of Animal …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) serve as markers of ancient viral infections and provide
invaluable insight into host and viral evolution. ERVs have been exapted to assist in …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple introductions of domestic cat feline leukemia virus in endangered Florida panthers

ES Chiu, S Kraberger, M Cunningham… - Emerging infectious …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The endangered Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi) had an outbreak of infection
with feline leukemia virus (FeLV) in the early 2000s that resulted in the deaths of 3 animals …

Discordant FeLV p27 immunoassay and PCR test results in 21 cats with hematologic disorders

M Kornya, D Bienzle… - Journal of Feline …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Case series summary A total of 1692 medical records from a primary care feline practice and
a veterinary referral hospital were evaluated retrospectively to assess discordant feline …

Envelope Recombination: A Major Driver in Shaping Retroviral Diversification and Evolution within the Host Genome

S Chabukswar, N Grandi, LT Lin, E Tramontano - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are integrated into host DNA as the result of ancient germ
line infections, primarily by extinct exogenous retroviruses. Thus, vertebrates' genomes …

Pathological findings in koala retrovirus-positive koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) from Northern and Southern Australia

J Fabijan, N Sarker, N Speight, H Owen, J Meers… - Journal of comparative …, 2020 - Elsevier
Koala retrovirus (KoRV) infection shows differences in prevalence and load between
northern and southern Australian koala populations; however, the effect of this on diseases …