You may look at this journal.
Bobade PA, Nash AS & Rogerson P. 1988. Feline haemobartonellosis:
Clinical, haematological and pathological studies in natural infections
and the relationship to infection with feline leukaemia virus.
The Veterinary Record 122: 32-36.
I hope this helps.
Cheol H. YUN
yun at sask.usask.ca
On Sat, 3 Dec 1994, Rachel Caspi wrote:
> In article <3bo7oc$imi at newsbf01.news.aol.com>, iclarius at aol.com (IClarius)
> wrote:
>> > My son is writing a report for 9th grade biology and needs information on
> > Feline Leukemia. He has reviewed all the library material at school and
> > our local libraries but has only been able to find 3 paragraphs of info.
> > Any info would be greatly appreicated.
> >
> > thank you,
> >
> > iclarius
>> The following is an excerpt from a FAQ document about cats. Unfortunately,
> it is also 3 paragraphs, but hopefully will add some information to what
> you already have. One more option you might try is a good cat care book,
> available at your local petstore.
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> G. Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV).
>> Also a retrovirus, Feline Leukemia is fatal and usually fairly
> quickly, within three to four years and often less. There is a small
> percentage, ~4%, who are apparently immune and live with FeLV with no
> side effects (except that they are carriers and may infect other
> cats). There is a vaccination for this disease.
>> FeLV is spread mainly by saliva, nose mucous and maybe urine. It is
> fairly fragile away from cats' bodily fluids,,so transmission by
> humans (on boots, etc.) are not likely. A latent cat probably needs
> to become viremic (positive test) before it can infect other cats,
> *unless* it is a queen nursing kittens. The ELISA test has a
> significant false postive rate, depending on fluid tested. The IFA
> test correlates better with actual virus isolation from tested cats.
> The best way to reduce risk is to keep negative cats away from
> positive cats.
> The virus can affect a lot of tissues, but tends to be most notorious
> for causing cancer of lymphocytes, neutrophiles, platelet precursors,
> in fact nearly all cellular constituants of the blood. These cancers
> arise from the similar ability to hide out for a long latency in the
> body, but the FeLV virus "irritates" blood forming cells, causing them
> to do strange things (become cancerous). Very generally, symptoms of
> FeLV infection can range from none (some few recover) to very sick.
> The symptoms depend on which cell line is being attacked. Treatment
> is similarly complicated, ranging from antivirals to anticancer drugs,
> and other drugs thrown in to manage infections and side effects.
>> Immunoregulin has been used with some success in treating cats with
> this disease.
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>> --
> Rachel R. Caspi, Ph.D. phone: 301-496-6409
> Laboratory of Immunology, NEI 301-496-6394
> NIH Building 10, Room 10N222 fax: 301-402-0485
> Bethesda, Maryland 20892 email: rcaspi at helix.nih.gov>>
