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Prevalence of feline immunodeficiency virus and feline leukemia virus infections in random-source cats
P J Glennon1, T Cockburn, D M Stark
1Laboratory Animal Research Center, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021.
Laboratory Animal Science
|December 1, 1991
Abstract:
Retroviral serologic profiles were generated for 506 random-source cats (Felis catus) that were received by our facility during a twenty-month period. Feline leukemia virus antigens were detected in plasma samples from 26 (5.1%) of the cats. Antibodies to feline immunodeficiency virus were present in 24 (4.7%) of the samples tested. A single cat (0.2%) was positive for both viruses. Neither gender nor vendor correlation with retroviral seropositivity could be demonstrated.