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Acute feline calicivirus infection was associated with abortion, with the virus isolated from one of four dead fetuses exhibiting petechial haemorrhages.
This case report provides evidence that acute feline calicivirus infection can be associated with abortion and fetal lesions in domestic cats.
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May associate acute FCV with feline abortion; hypothesis-generating case report requiring larger studies for confirmation.
Feline calicivirus (FCV) was isolated from one of four dead fetuses delivered by ovariohysterectomy from a queen with an acute FCV infection. The most prominent lesions in the fetuses were petechial haemorrhages in the skin. The virus isolated was characterised as FCV by antigenic analysis and cDNA sequence analysis. This is the second report of abortion associated with acute FCV infection.
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Vuuren et al. (1999) studied this question. Acute feline calicivirus infection was associated with abortion, with the virus isolated from one of four dead fetuses exhibiting petechial haemorrhages.
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