The 2008 retrovirus document can be downloaded here: http://catvets.com/professionals/guidelines/publications/?Id=323
As for breaking the tie, your vet could run a confirmatory ELISA using a different kit and plasma or serum rather than whole blood. But really, if 45 days is what they want, that works. The FeLV testing protocol suggested on felineleukemia.org is: For healthy cats: http://www.felineleukemia.org/felvhlth.html For sick cats: http://www.felineleukemia.org/felvsick.html On Jun 13, 2013, at 1:52 AM, Karen Harshbarger <[email protected]> wrote: > All the younger ones are 13 months old----are from the same litter and there > is one senior. The female never did test positive (and she lived with them > at the start of her life). I think the first one didn't make it because we > did not realize what we were dealing with and were not aggressive enough. > They had all been sick with upper respiratory and couldn't seem to get rid of > it and it just kept passing it around. If we had only known just how serious > it was and that they had been exposed to leukemia somewhere along the line > (not sure exactly how) we would have moved them into the garage sooner and > been much more aggressive (and then Tig would have made it maybe---that is > what I keep kicking myself about). Once we realized what we were dealing > with we got major aggressive on everything--one sneeze or one little running > of the eye, or sleeping too much, or not cleaning their food dish, etc and > off to the vet we went. It scares me to think how much of our retirement > savings we have spent---but I tried and tried to find financial assistance > and just could not, so what do you do---couldn't let any more of these babies > just waste away like Tig did if I could possibly do anything about it---so we > just kept trying and are still treating aggressively even after the negative > test. We also changed their diet from the cheapest we were using cause we > had so many cats to a better more expensive food. > > But we are not out of the woods yet. The way my vet and some of the reading > I have done explains that you need to get two tests that say the same thing > because sometimes the test is wrong. Since 4 of them had a positive test and > then a negative test, we need the third test to break the tie so to > speak----hopefully the 3rd test will be negative and then my vet said we can > rest assured that they are truly negative. The little female tested negative > twice, so we keep her separate and figure she is pretty much in the > clear---at least hope. (the two little ones that the no kill rescue took > for us are about 10 months old by now and as I said one tested positive and > one tested negative---we don't know how they came out on the second test but > were told a few months back that they were both doing good). > > I would be interested in that research paper that you speak of. We all need > to do as much as we can to fight and learn about this horrible illness. > thanks Karen
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