@article {10.3844/ajavsp.2021.162.165,
article_type = {journal},
title = {Feline Infectious Peritonitis and Feline Coronavirus Interest During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Google Trends Analysis},
author = {Jokar, Mohammad and Rahmanian, Vahid and Sharifi, Nader and Rahmanian, Narges and Khoubfekr, Hekmatollah},
volume = {16},
number = {2},
year = {2021},
month = {May},
pages = {162-165},
doi = {10.3844/ajavsp.2021.162.165},
url = {https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajavsp.2021.162.165},
abstract = {Coronaviruses infecteddifferent species of animals, such as feline, canine, swine and bovine. Inveterinary medicine, a significant fatal coronavirus disease in Felidae is FelineInfectious Peritonitis (FIP). The Internet provided many websites about smallanimals that present educational content for disease prevention, pets welfare,etc. Upper than 90% of internet users chooses Google as a search engine. In2008, Google Company launched Google Insights for search that displaying searchtrends data. Finally, this company merged Google Insights for Search intoGoogle Trends (GT).We conducted a Google Trends analysis to evaluate searchinterest in FIP and feline coronavirus in the COVID-19 pandemic. For thispurpose, we search two topics, "Feline infectious peritonitis" and"Feline coronavirus” in GT, for collecting data. The duration of study wasselected in two periods: January-November 2020, the COVID-19 period and thesame period in 2019 for comparison. Comparison of the RSV means between thesetwo periods was performed using two independent samples t-test with assumingunequal variances and two-sided p-value },
journal = {American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences},
publisher = {Science Publications}
}