Five-Minute Paper: Mutant FIP Outbreak
How a recombinant canine/feline coronavirus caused a deadly outbreak in Cyprus
For this edition of “Five-Minute Paper” I will be walking through a study concerning a breaking news story: a deadly outbreak of an unusual mutant coronavirus causing a highly-transmissible variant of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP). This study was uploaded to bioRxiv as a pre-print ahead of peer reviewed publication in a journal, so the final version may differ from what is discussed here. However, since this is an important and timely story that has been reported in Science and other outlets I thought it was appropriate to cover this preliminary data.
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