| high prevalence of borna disease virus in domestic cats with neurological disorders in japan. | a total of 15 (t-1-t-15) domestic cats with neurological disorders in tokyo area were examined for association with borna disease virus (bdv). none had detectable antibodies to feline immunodeficiency virus (fiv), feline leukemia virus, feline infectious peritonitis virus and toxoplasma gondii, and only cat t-8 had detectable antibody to fiv. serological and molecular epidemiological studies revealed a significantly high prevalence of bdv infection in these cats: antibodies against bdv p24 and/o ... | 1999 | 10596800 |
| a study on borna disease virus infection in domestic cats in japan. | borna disease virus (bdv) infection causes neurological disease in cats. here, we report bdv infection in 199 hospitalized domestic cats in the tokyo area. bdv infection was evaluated by detection of plasma antibodies against bdv-p24 or -p40. bdv-specific antibodies were detected in 54 cats (27.1%). interestingly, the percentage of seropositive cats was not significantly different among the three clinical groups, i.e., healthy (29.8%), neurologically asymptomatic disease (22.2%) and neurological ... | 2014 | 24805904 |
| prevalence of borna disease virus rna in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from blood donors. | the presence of borna disease virus (bdv) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (pbmc) of 100 blood donors from sapporo and 72 blood donors from tokyo was examined using nested reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction amplification with specific-primers for bdv p24. anti-bdv p24 antibodies in the plasma of the 100 blood donors from sapporo also were studied by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and by western blot. bdv rna was detected in 3 (4.2%) of the 72 pbmc samples from tokyo, and in ... | 1995 | 8577314 |