Thank you Faye for the link to the Merck Veterinary site. I haven't had
the time, or the energy to read much of it, but it looks very
worthwhile. One of my cats is having a problem with what I suspect is
Inflammatory Bowel Disease, I clicked a couple of times and there was a
wealth of info on that too.
Faye Lewis wrote:
I did a google search on the info that he provided, as he suggested,
and I found some information on the subgroups he was talking about. I
had never heard of the subgroups and found this interesting.
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/56600.htm
I will give my understanding of the article (and it may be imperfect):
FelvA is feline leukemia. When some cats with certain types of DNA
get FelvA, they also develop FelvB or Felv C. Cats with Felv A and
Felvb are more likely to have lymphosarcomas (50%). Cats with FelvA
and FelvC are more likely to have anemias (1%).
"Within the infected cat, FeLV-A is sometimes altered to produce
FeLV-B and FeLV-C viruses. FeLV-B is found in ~50% of naturally
infected cats, along with FeLV-A. The FeLV-A and FeLV-B together are
more frequently associated with neoplastic diseases than is FeLV-A
alone. FeLV-C viruses are isolated from only 1% of naturally infected
cats, along with FeLV-A and sometimes both FeLV-A and FeLV-B. The
presence of FeLV-C in an infected cat is strongly associated with the
development of erythroid hypoplasia and consequent severe anemia."
I am sorry he was rude. However, perhaps there is some useful
information that came from all of this.
