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A clinical and microbiological study of cats with protruding nictitating membranes and diarrhoea: isolation of a novel virus.

Peter Muir, Dave A Harbour, Tim Gruffydd-Jones, Pam Howard, C. D. Hopper, E. A. Gruffydd-Jones, H M Broadhead, Christine M. Clarke, Michael Emlyn Jones

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Fifty cats with the syndrome of protruding nictitating membranes and diarrhoea were compared clinically and microbiologically with nine cats with diarrhoea alone and 17 healthy cats. A novel torovirus-like agent was isolated from 11 cats, including seven of the cats with protruding nictitating membranes and diarrhoea.

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Key concepts: Nictitating membrane, CATS, Medicine, Membrane, Isolation (microbiology), Biology, Microbiology, Internal medicine