Association of plasma viral RNA load with prognosis in cats naturally infected with feline immunodeficiency virus |
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| Authors: | Goto Yuko Nishimura Yoshiaki Baba Kenji Mizuno Takuya Endo Yasuyuki Masuda Kenichi Ohno Koichi Tsujimoto Hajime |
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| Institution: | Department of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan. |
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| Abstract: | We measured the quantity of plasma feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) RNA using a real-time sequence detecting system. Plasma viral RNA load was shown to correlate with the clinical stage, survival time, and disease progression in naturally FIV-infected cats. The present study indicates that the plasma viral RNA load can be used as a clinical marker representing the impairment of the immune system and predicting the clinical outcome in FIV-infected cats. |
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