ASPECTS REGARDING MOLECULAR TECHNICS TO ESTABLISH THE CARRIER AND ELIMINATORS OF FELINE CORONA VIRUS.

This aim of this paper is to evaluate the presence of Coronavirus in cat faeces and blood samples in order to establish the carriers and eliminators of this virus. The great importance of this carrier state consists in the fact that the cats, specially the ones from the holdhouses and from the owners that have at list two cats in the same house, because the coronavirus is highly contagious, but also can suffer mutations and transformation in feline infectious peritonitis virus which is lethal. We analysed samples from 30 healthy and with clinical signs cats and we observed that the virus was identified only in 4 faces samples using molecular methods like viral ARN extraction and amplification using RT- PCR method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]