https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/25229/new-fip-test-kit I see that Idexx have brought out an in-house diagnostic test for FCoV. I wonder what value this will be towards diagnosis as we know that FCoV antibody titres are very variable in FIP and are not diagnostic. They do add a caveat that it is only parten-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/171089?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:03:01 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:d05cca0c-278b-448e-b0fd-aaa4dc95fc2aMartin Atkinson<p>[quote user=&quot;Sarah Keir&quot;]</p> <p>What is the test testing? If it is FeCo titre then near to useless.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]Exactly my initial thoughts. There is a brief &#39;advertorial&#39; on it on p 657 of this week&#39;s&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration:line-through;">comic</span> Vet Record. It says it&#39;s &#39;an in-clinic diagnostic test to screen for the presence of FCoV in serum or plasma&#39;. It appears to be detecting the virus itself rather than the antibody titre but I can&#39;t see how that is any more use either. Be interesting to see its sensitivity/specificity.</p> <p>A bit more use it seems is their FIP Virus RealPCR which claims to &#39; help detect the mutations in FCoV to the pathogenic FIP virus biotype&#39;.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/171084?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:04:54 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:fa407afa-7b56-4337-8d6b-34a7063d22e8Sarah Keir<p>What is the test testing?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/171083?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 23 Dec 2016 16:04:26 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:c270f64a-322f-42cc-a899-ebc1d72d7afeSarah Keir<p>What is the test testing? If it is FeCo titre then near to useless.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/171075?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:53:28 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:32a5efe8-07d7-41e8-aa6c-ffc439b5e5eeAnthony Dennison<p>I think the feline medicine team at Bristol have been doing a lot of work into it - they were talking about it in my final year (2012)</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>