Efficacy of a 3C-like protease inhibitor in treating various forms of acquired feline infectious peritonitis

Pedersen, Niels C; Kim, Yunjeong; Liu, Hongwei; Galasiti Kankanamalage, Anushka C; Eckstrand, Chrissy; Groutas, William C; Bannasch, Michael; Meadows, Juliana M; Chang, Kyeong-Ok

Twenty cats and their owners were ultimately included in the trial and pertinent information on each cat is given in Table 1 and on the entire trial group in Figure 1 . Cats presented to the study with varying degrees of pretesting by their primary-care veterinarians. This testing usually included a complete blood count (CBC) with total plasma protein, globulin (G), albumin (A), A:G; serum chemistry profile and analysis of effusions, including total protein, actual or estimated cell count, and type of inflammatory cells. Additional testing had been performed on a small proportion of cats and included FIPV antibody titers, abdominal or thoracic ultrasound, biopsies of diseased tissue and quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) on effusions.