FIV establishes a latent infection in feline peripheral blood CD4+ T lymphocytes in vivo during the asymptomatic phase of infection
Abstract Background Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a lentivirus Tape Measure of cats that establishes a lifelong persistent infection with immunologic impairment.Results In an approximately 2 year-long experimental infection study, cats infected with a biological isolate of FIV clade C demonstrated undetectable plasma viral loads from 10 mo