Dr. Verma and his Salk colleagues pioneered the use of a stripped - down version of the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV, the causative
agent of AIDS) to carry genes into defective cells.
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-...]