Susceptibility of feline herpesvirus 1 and a feline calicivirus to feline interferon and recombinant human leukocyte interferons

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1985 Nov;28(5):698-9. doi: 10.1128/AAC.28.5.698.

Abstract

Feline lung monolayer cultures were treated with either a feline interferon (IFN) or one of two recombinant human alpha-IFNs and then challenged with feline herpesvirus 1 (FHV-1), feline calicivirus (F-9 strain), or vesicular stomatitis virus. Treatment with these IFNs reduced the viral yield for each of these three viruses as compared with that of control cultures. Vesicular stomatitis virus was more sensitive to each IFN than were FHV-1 or feline calicivirus F-9.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Caliciviridae / drug effects*
  • Cats
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Herpesviridae / drug effects*
  • Humans
  • Interferon Type I / pharmacology*
  • Interferons / pharmacology*
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Recombinant Proteins / pharmacology
  • Viral Plaque Assay

Substances

  • Interferon Type I
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Interferons