Consider testing all feline dental patients for retrovirus infection From: DVM | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Bellows, Jan | Copyright Advanstar Communications, Inc. Sep 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) infection is present in 2% to 3% of the healthy cat population and in approximately 12% of sick cats.1 Early replication of the virus occurs in the oropharyngeal lymphoid tissue. The virus is secreted in saliva and transmitted between cats through fighting, licking, and nursing; it is also passed transplacentally. After exposure, some cats mount an effective immune response that clears the infection, while other cats' immune response is ineffective, resulting in p...

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