Interaction of an intranasal combined feline viral rhinotracheitis, feline calicivirus vaccine and the FVR carrier state
Orr, C.M.; Gaskell, C.J.; Gaskell, R.M.
Veterinary Record 106(8): 164-166
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4900 PMID: 6244692 Document Number: 157330
Eight cats were vaccinated nasally with a commercial live combined feline calcivirus/feline viral rhinotracheitis (FVR) virus vaccine. Following intranasal challenge with a field strain of FVR virus and subsequent treatment with corticosteroid, no virus was recovered from any of the eight cats, while FVR virus was recovered following corticosteroid treatment from two of four unvaccinated and challenged controls. There was no evidence that the vaccine induced a FVR virus carrier state.