id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-023053-j061ywrl BARLOUGH, J. E. Cats, coronaviruses and coronavirus antibody tests 2008-04-10 .txt text/plain 3611 156 35 In domestic and exotic cats, FIPV is the aetiologic agent of a lethal disease-feline infectious peritonitis (FIP)-characterized by fibrinous serositis, vasculitis, and formation of disseminated pyogranulomas (Wolfe & Griesemer. Laboratory test procedures for detection of coronavirus antibody in feline sera include biological assays such as virus neutralization (VN); non-biological, immunochemical techniques such as indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and kinetics-based ELISA (KELA); and other methods such as agar gel immunodiffusion and passive haemagglutination , though the availability of such tests varies worldwide. The serodiagnostic potential of these assays (i.e., their ability to identify cats with active FIP and/or potential virus carriers/excretors) is thus limited not only by the widespread distribution of serum coronavirus antibody in the feline population, but also by the possibility that non-FIPV coronaviruses may be responsible for some of the seroconversions that they detect. ./cache/cord-023053-j061ywrl.txt ./txt/cord-023053-j061ywrl.txt