Another person or I will have to get some free time to see if
Bartonella has ever been confirmed in ferrets, but this is interesting
in term of which had it and which did not since it MIGHT indicate a
better resistance in members of genus Mustela:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22841404

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Vet Microbiol. 2012 Jul 17. [Epub ahead of print]
Isolation and phylogenetic analysis of Bartonella species from wild
carnivores of the suborder Caniformia in Japan.
Sato S, Kabeya H, Miura T, Suzuki K, Bai Y, Kosoy M, Sentsui H, Kariwa
H, Maruyama S.
Source
Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health, Department of Veterinary
Medicine, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, 1866
Kameino, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-0880, Japan.

Abstract
The prevalence of Bartonella species was investigated among wild
carnivores of the suborder Caniformia, including 15 Japanese badgers
(Meles anakuma), 8 Japanese martens (Martes melampus), 2 Japanese
weasels (Mustela itatsi), 1 Siberian weasel (Mustela sibirica), 171
raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides), and 977 raccoons (Procyon
lotor) in Japan. Bartonella bacteria were isolated from one Japanese
badger (6.7%) and from one Japanese marten (12.5%); however, no
Bartonella species was found in other representatives of Caniformia.
Phylogenetic analysis was based on concatenated sequences of six
housekeeping genes (16S rRNA, ftsZ, gltA, groEL, ribC, and rpoB) and
sequence of the 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer region. The
sequence analysis indicated that the isolate derived from the Japanese
badger (strain JB-15) can represent a novel Bartonella species and the
isolate from the Japanese marten (strain JM-1) was closely related to
Bartonella washoensis. This is the first report on isolation of
Bartonella from badger and marten.

Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

PMID: 22841404 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Sukie (not a vet) Ferrets make the world a game.

Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html

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