----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 3:27 PM Subject: RE: contagiousness of FELV and other thoughts.../strain
> This is quite some list! Thank you for sharing some of it. Did you pull up > these references online or did you go to library that might have > medical/veterinary journals in stock? The references came from my personal library. To be honest with you, I've read some > tech journals online & I'm afraid that oftentimes the medical terminology is > beyond me. Are you in the medical field? I'm not a vet or a tech but I work with a lot of vets and labs and thousands of cats. My research comes from bonafide veterinary medical texts and journals and practicing vets who have a special interest in this disease, and direct first hand experience. I'm assuming you have a FELV+ > cat...Is this why you started such exhaustive research? I've dealing with this disease since before it had a name -- back in the 60s when everyone thought FeLV was a "new" virus. Its actually an ancient virus - 1 -10 million years old (interesting story), it was merely discovered in 1964. I lost one cat to this virus a long time ago and another after a 6 year battle. I'm presently working with 3 FeLV cats. Btw, the often mentioned "2.5 - 3 year lifespan" of FeLV cats is not absolute. Thus the importance of subgroups. I'm happy we cleared up the misunderstandings. I'm looking forward to learning a lot from this group and sharing the little knowledge I have. Ong > > Chris > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Ong Meo > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 3:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: contagiousness of FELV and other thoughts.../strain > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Belinda Sauro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:42 PM > Subject: Re: contagiousness of FELV and other thoughts.../strain > > > > Is it a big secret, some of us like to see things with their own > > eyes? > > Here are a few references to get you started: > > > Hardy WD Jr, Old LJ, Hess PW, et al: Horizontal transmission of feline > leukaemia virus. Nature 244:266, 1973 > > > These two explain how subgroups are determined: > > > > Sarma PS, Log T: Subgroup classification of feline leukemia and sarcoma > viruses by viral interference > > and neutralization tests. Virology 54:160, 1973 > > > > Jarrett 0, Hardy WD Jr, Golder MC, Hay D: The frequency of occurrence of > feline leukaernia virus > > subgroups in cats. Int J Cancer 21:334, 1978 > > > > > > These explain how subgroup C evolves: > > > > Brojatsch J, Kristal BS, Viglianti GA, et al: Feline leukemia virus subgroup > C phenotype evolves > > through distinct alterations near the N-terminus of the envelope surface > glycoprotein. > > Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89:8457, 1992 > > > > > > Benveniste RE, Sherr CJ, Todaro GJ: Evolution of type C viral genes: Origin > of feline leukemia virus. Science 190:886, 1975 > > > > Benveniste RE, Todaro GJ: Multiple divergent cop- ies of endogenous C-type > virogenes in rnammalian > > cells. Nature 252:170, 1974 > > > > Benveniste RE, Todaro GJ: Evolution of C-type viral genes: Inheritance of > exogenously acquired viral > > genes. Nature 252:456, 1974 > > > > Todaro GJ, Benveniste RE, Sherwin SA, Sherr EJ: MAC-1, a new genetically > transmitted type C virus of primates: Low frequency activation from > stumptail monkey cell cultures. Cell 3:775, 1978 > > > > > Chen-Hang, M.K. Bechtel, Shi Yan, A. Phipps, L.E Mathes, K.A. Hayes, Roy > Burman, H. Chen, Y. Shi. Pathogenicity induced by feline leukemia virus, > rickard strain, subgroup A plasmid DNA (pFRA). Journal of Virology. 1998, > 72:9, pp. 7048-7056. > > If you need more let me know. I have about 1,600. > > Ong. > > > > >
