Volume 18, Number 7—July 2012
Research
Spike Protein Fusion Peptide and Feline Coronavirus Virulence
Hui-Wen Chang, Herman F. Egberink, Rebecca Halpin, David J. Spiro, and Peter J.M. Rottier
Table 2
Prevalence of alternative mutations in feline infectious peritonitis virus spike protein of cats with wet and dry forms of FIP*
| Mutation | Pathologic form of FIP |
|
|---|---|---|
| Wet | Dry | |
| M1058L | 71 | 46 |
| S1060A | 5 | 1 |
| No mutation | 3 | 3 |
| Total | 79 | 50 |
*Cats were diagnosed with the dry or wet form of FIP (feline infectious peritonitis) during postmortem examination by a veterinary pathologist. The occurrence and nature of the mutation in the spike gene was established by sequencing.
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