Fortunately, a very rare disease:

>J Comp Pathol. 2007 Dec 5 [Epub ahead of print]
>Identification of Group 1 Coronavirus Antigen in Multisystemic
>Granulomatous Lesions in Ferrets (Mustela putorius furo).
>
>Mart’nez J, Reinacher M, Perpinan D, Ramis A. Departament de Sanitat
>i Anatomia Animals, Facultat de Veterinˆria, Universitat Aut˜noma de
>Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Tissues from nine ferrets with
>granulomatous lesions similar to those seen in feline infectious
>peritonitis were examined histopathologically and
>immunohistochemically. Four main types of lesions were observed:
>diffuse granulomatous inflammation on serosal surfaces; granulomas
>with areas of necrosis; granulomas without necrosis; and granulomas
>with neutrophils. Other less commonly seen lesions were granulomatous
>necrotizing vasculitis and endogenous lipid pneumonia. FCV3-70
>monoclonal antibody produced immunolabelling of group 1 coronavirus
>antigen in tissue samples from eight animals, the antigen being present
>in the cytoplasm of macrophages in the different types of granulomatous
>lesions.
>PMID: 18067916 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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

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