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Necrotizing pneumonia in a cat caused by an orthopox virus
U Hinrichs1, H van de Poel, T S van den Ingh
1Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Journal of Comparative Pathology
|July 16, 1999
Abstract:
A necrotizing pneumonia was observed in a domestic cat which had a clinical history of severe respiratory distress. Histology, immunohistology and electronmicroscopy revealed poxvirus as the causative agent. By the polymerase chain reaction and gene sequencing, an orthopox virus with 93% homology to cowpox virus was identified.