Kimberly Schmied, Rosina Ehmann, Claudia Kristen-Burmann, Nadine Ebert, Güliz Tuba Barut, Lea Almeida, Jenna N Kelly, Lisa Thomann, Hanspeter Stalder, Reto Lang, Gergely Tekes, Volker Thiel
FIPV is of great significance in the cat population around the world, causing 0.3%-1.4% of feline deaths in veterinary practices (2). As there are neither effective preventive measures nor approved treatment options available, there is an urgent need to identify antiviral drugs against FIPV. Our FCoV replicon system provides a valuable tool for drug discovery in vitro . Due to the lack of cell culture systems for serotype I FCoVs (the serotype most prevalent in the feline population) (2), a different system is needed to study these viruses...
January 18, 2024: Journal of Virology