Well, I don't know if they get that Staph species and subset (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus) so will hit Pub Med Not all the answers may apply to the same species of Staph and i don't have time to even skim some of these to see which may be applicable, but you can. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10722650 http://iai.asm.org/cgi/content/full/68/4/2386?view=long&pmid=10722650 <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=10722650> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1332511 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1984474 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2807545 http://iai.asm.org/cgi/reprint/57/12/3735?view=long&pmid=2807545 <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=2807545> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2542970 and you will find 5 older possibilities in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 6121]