Table 3.
Studies concerning the integrity of the 3c gene in different disease manifestation of FCoV around the world.
| Studies | Disease manifestation |
Reference | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIP |
Healthy |
||||
| Intact | Mutated | Intact | Mutated | ||
| 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Vennema et al. (1998) |
| 2 | 0 | 8 | Pedersen et al. (2009) | ||
| 3 | 8 | 20 | 27 | 0 | Chang et al. (2010) |
| 4 | 13 | 19 | 26 | 1 | Pedersen et al. (2012) |
| 5 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 1 | This study |
| Total number (%)⁎ | 25 (27.8) | 65 (72.2) | 74 (97.4) | 2 (2.6) | |
Within the group.