Have You Heard? Will dietary lysine control herpesvirus infections?

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Dietary lysine supplementation may actually intensify clinical signs and increase detection of feline herpesvirus infection.

Source: Drazenovich TL, Fascetti AJ, Westermeyer HD, et al. Effects of dietary lysine supplementation on upper respiratory and ocular disease and detection of infectious organisms in cats within an animal shelter.

Am J Vet Res

2009;70(11):1391-1400.

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