Accelerating Treatment Discovery for Complex Feline Viruses

Little is known about why the cat's immune defenses fail to eliminate certain devastating and deadly viruses. Researchers will use advanced DNA technology to study specific molecules in cat blood samples collected from around the world. This new data will provide much needed insight into the cat's immune response to infectious diseases and will help detect breaches in protection against viral infections. This new information will be shared with the broader feline scientific community, expediting development of the next generation of vaccines against some of today's most challenging feline viruses, including feline leukemia virus, feline immunodeficiency virus and feline infectious peritonitis.