General Feline Infectious Peritonitis Resources
Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP)
Feline Infections Peritonitis (FIP) is a devastating and nearly always fatal disease of cats which arises from a mutation of the common feline coronavirus (FECV) which infects 40-80% of cats worldwide. Research over the past four decades has increased our knowledge of FIP, but we have not yet discovered a cure for this illness that affects cats, particularly young cats from catteries and animal shelters.
Links to resources for information about FIP
- Inappropriate use of GS-441524 in an attempt to eliminate FECV from healthy cats January 2020
- Effects of surgical versus hormonal neutering and routine vaccination on GS-441524 treatment for FIP January 2020
- Personal statement on GS-441524 August 2019
- Neurological and ocular FIP April 2019
- FIP Treatment June 2019
- Black-market production and sale of GS-441524 and GC376 June 2019
- How to administrator anti-viral drugs by subcutaneous injection (video)
- Efficacy and safety of the nucleoside analog GS-441524 for treatment of cats with naturally occurring feline infectious peritonitis February 2019
- "Efficacy of a 3C-like protease inhibitor in treating various forms of acquired feline infectious peritonitis" September 2017
- "Reversal of the Progression of Fatal Coronavirus Infection in Cats by a Broad-Spectrum Coronavirus Protease Inhibitor" - March 2016 (pdf)
- Updates on Feline Infectious Peritonitis, May 2014: two recent articles (pdf formatted page with links)Two reviews of FIP literature from 2009-2014 (Virology and immunopathogenesis; Diagnostics and therapeutics)
- FIP Synopsis (pdf file) A review of FIP literature 1963-2008
- Interview with Dr. Niels Pedersen about Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) September 2008 (pdf)
About Dr. Niels Pedersen - Sock It To FIP is an organization dedicated to disseminating information about this deadly feline disease, and raising money to support research to combat this disease.
- FIP information for animal shelters - see "Information Sheets" on the Koret Shelter Medicine Program web site
- Feline Enteric Coronavirus Article in Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, 2008 (pdf format)