Table 1.
Typing of feline coronavirus by RT-PCR and its prevalence in Taiwan.
| Clinical statusa | Number of cases tested |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typable |
Untypable | Total | |||
| Type I | Type II | Type I and II | |||
| FIP | 28/38 (73.7%) | 4/38 (10.5%) | 6/38 (15.8%) | 10 | 48/363 (13.2%) |
| Ill | 98/110 (89.0%) | 6/110 (5.5%) | 6/110 (5.5%) | 78 | 188/363 (51.8%) |
| Healthy | 71/74 (95.9%) | 3/74 (4.1%) | 0/74 (0%) | 53 | 127/363 (35.0%) |
| Total | 197/363 (54.3%) | 13/363 (3.6%) | 12/363 (3.3%) | 141/363 (38.8%) | 363 |
a
FIP: FIP confirmed by FCoV positive results from body effusion and necropsy; Ill: cat was present either with the anorexia, weight loss, lethargy, icterus, or diarrhea but lack of final histopathological confirmation.