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Production of Replication-Defective Retrovirus by Transient Transfection of 293T cells
Published on: December 4, 2007
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1Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.
Abstract:
No commercial vaccine [correction of vacine] exists for feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), and although feline leukemia virus (FeLV) vaccines are available, they are neither 100% effective nor used in all cats. These realities clearly indicate the veterinarian will be required to treat either FeLV- or FIV-positive cats for some time to come. The management of FIV- or FeLV-positive cats may require supportive therapies as well as virus-specific therapies such as zidovudine (AZT; Retrovir, Burroughs Wellcome, Research Triangle Park, NC).
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