Cadoré J L, Steiner-Laurent S, Greenland T, Mornex J F, Loire R
Laboratoire associé de recherche sur les lentivirus chez les petits ruminants, INRA, Lyon, France.
Res Vet Sci. 1997 May-Jun;62(3):287-8. doi: 10.1016/s0034-5288(97)90206-x.
Postmortem bronchoalveolar lavage of feline immunodeficiency virus-infected cats indicated an alveolitis process, and histological examination of their lungs confirmed the occurrence of alveolitis, parenchymatous lymphoplasmocytic infiltration and myomatosis. Similar lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis has been described in human and animal lentiviral diseases: lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis in HIV-1-infected human beings, and maedi in sheep infected by the maedi-visna virus. Such lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis may thus be a common feature of lentiviral infections.
对感染猫免疫缺陷病毒的猫进行尸检支气管肺泡灌洗显示存在肺泡炎过程，对其肺部进行组织学检查证实发生了肺泡炎、实质淋巴细胞浆细胞浸润和肌瘤病。在人类和动物慢病毒疾病中也描述过类似的淋巴间质性肺炎：HIV-1感染人类中的淋巴细胞间质性肺炎，以及感染梅迪-维斯纳病毒的绵羊中的梅迪病。因此，这种淋巴间质性肺炎可能是慢病毒感染的一个共同特征。
