My cat Bob tested positive at around 6 months. He was a foster and had not been previously tested. His mother was negative I assume, but it was so long ago I don't recall. He tested positive on an elisa. We waited 3 months and did a bone marrow test that was sent out............ I don't even know if they had IFA's then. It came back negative and all elisa tests since that time have come back negative as well.
This was over 10 years ago, and he had already had his 'kitten shots' and been neutered through my humane society because he was "up for adoption" (yeah, right!)
Maybe it was a false positive........... But it was before there was advantage and all that, and my cats got fleas I couldn't get rid of. I took about 8 cats to the vet on the same day to be dipped and bathed and bomb my house. The vet's office called me back and said they couldn't treat
Bob because he had tested felv positive. They retested and did bathe and dip him anyway even though he came up positive on the 2nd test. We waited 3 months and did the bone marrow and it came back negative. At that time I just felt it must be a mistake with the test. I didn't know much about felv (not many people did) and he was healthy as a horse. I didn't know enough to freak out like I did later when another one of my cats came up positive. (She came to me positive. She did not catch it from Bob.)
tonya
kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would just like to know statistically if anyone out there has had
the initial test pos and then after 6-10 weeks become neg,,,either
ELisa of IFA...and stay neg??
Has anyone out there used Immuno regulin on a newly dignosed FELV
before they were symptomatic and the results on succeeding tests,
Already using Vit C and lysine....
Kelly
