While there can be specific causes of this
chronic and frustrating inflammation such as viral
infection with
feline herpes
virus (rhinotracheitis), calicivirus (FCV),
feline leukemia
virus and / or
feline immunodeficiency virus, most of the time no specific causative agents can be found, placing the cause as ideopathic / immune mediated, which means that the cat's immune -LSB-...]
Chronic diseases such as diabetes, Cushing's Disease, cancer, and immune suppressive
viruses in cats such as
feline leukemia (FeLV) and
feline immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) may lead to urinary
infections as well.