FELINE INFECTIOUS PERITONITIS

We are concentrating on helping cats with Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) which are being treated for the disease with the anti-viral drugs Remdesivir and GS-441524 prescribed by their veterinary team.

The laboratory measures the amount of anti-viral in a cat's blood stream from a sample provided by their veterinary surgeon during health checks.

The amount of drug being given (the dose) often provides very variable blood concentrations and so some cats may receive too little drug to ensure the virus is completely cleared from their body, whilst other cats may be receiving too large a dose if they absorb it more efficiently (wasting a valuable and costly drug).

Monitoring the dose in this way is called Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (which is used by human doctors to check doses of anti-rejection drugs and antibiotics in the same way) and may help your vet to decide the most effective dose to give to your cat.

If you need more information please contact us by sending an email to the address below (click on the address)

This is the equipment we use to analyse samples: a Dionex UltiMate 3000 UHPLC with autosampler, quat pumps, column oven, DAD, degasser & associated software.

Also shown are our VetBio-1 SPARCL analyser, used to measure AGP in blood samples, the Helena SAS-1 plus / SAS-2 electrophoresis analyser, used to isolate and measure the isoenzymes of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and the Siemens Clinitek Status+ automated urine analyser.