I'll add here to further muddy the waters. I lost my first positive 2 years ago due to the leukemia, so she was viremic and more than just a carrier. Even though we went through 2 prolonged illnesses with her (upper resp. problems, herpes virus, etc....) None of my other kitties caught the leukemia or even the uri from her.
In my experience it's just not that contagious among vaccinated adults. It's not impossible that something could happen to one of your own cats. I don't want to say it is. But experiences from the majority of people on this list have leaned more toward it being ok to mix. There are only a handful of people I can remember that had one of their own cats contract the disease due to mixing positives and negatives, and I don't recall the specific circumstances.
tonya
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I said:"I would perform the ELISA first--if it's negative, the infection was likely transient and Pilgrim is probably fine. If it's positive, then retest on the IFA. If that is still negative, then you should probably treat it as discordant and assume that the cat is POSITIVE because he may be able to give the disease to other cats and may become actively symptomatic down the line. I think his prognosis is generally better, however."But I just realized that that isn't the best approach. If you do the IFA first and it's positive, it will save you the cost of the second ELISA. If it's negative, then you do the second ELISA and go from there. Please pardon my error.Melissa in NJ
