A clinical and microbiological study of cats with protruding nictitating membranes and diarrhoea: isolation of a novel virus.
Fifty cats with the syndrome of protruding nictitating membranes and diarrhoea were compared clinically and microbiologically with nine cats with diarrhoea alone and 17 healthy cats. A novel torovirus-like agent was isolated from 11 cats, including seven of the cats with protruding nictitating membranes and diarrhoea.
Muir
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Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bristol, Langford.
Harbour
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DA
Gruffydd-Jones
T J
TJ
Howard
P E
PE
Hopper
C D
CD
Gruffydd-Jones
E A
EA
Broadhead
H M
HM
Clarke
C M
CM
Jones
M E
ME
D000818:Animals; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D002415:Cats; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D006385:Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests / Q000662:veterinary; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009541:Nictitating Membrane / Q000382:microbiology*; D013577:Syndrome; D014780:Viruses / Q000302:isolation & purification*