Feline Infectious Peritonitis

Question 1

Causal agent

Answer 1

Feline corona virus

Question 2

Incubation period

Answer 2

Variable

May be harboured asymptomatically and triggered by stress

Question 3

Transmission

Answer 3

Spreads through faeces and body fluids
Enters via ingestion/inhalation and intrauterine

Direct or indirect

Question 4

Pathophysiology

Answer 4

Infects macrophages and travels around body

Targets vascular beds of peritoneum, pleura, eyes, meninges and kidneys

Strong immunity may clear virus
Partial immunity results in dry FIP
Poor immunity results in wet FIP

Question 5

Dry and wet FIP

- which is chronic/acute

Answer 5

Dry FIP chronic

Wet FIP acute

Question 6

Clinical signs of acute form (5)

Answer 6

Dyspnoea
Anaemia
Mild pyrexia
Ascites/pleural effusion

Question 7

Clinical signs of chronic (3)

Answer 7

Anorexia
Weight loss
Granulomatus lesion development on spleen/liver/kidney
- leads to chronic organ failure

Question 8

Diagnosis (6)

Answer 8

Hx/cs/exam
Haem
- RBC/WBC/retic 
biochem
- +protein
Histo affected tissues
Abdominal fluid analysis 
- + protein 
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay