Donations to researchers working to improve the medical care of ferrets
ultimately gives the information which saves ferret lives.
Please, FEEL FREE TO SHARE this post as long as it is in its entirety
and unchanged, or you may paraphrase and write your own article using
this post as a resource for your writing. You may send it to ferret and
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newsletters or magazines as either a post or a letter; send it to your
own veterinarians, etc.
Below is a link to a new piece of work, FUNDED ENTIRELY BY DONATIONS
to the Ferret Health Advancement group at Michigan State University
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
which is getting the needed foundation on a very serious emerging
disease in ferrets.
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/11/12-0072_article.htm
(COMPLETE article link above)
Suggested citation for this article: Kiupel M, Desjardins DR, Lim A,
Bolin C, Johnson-Delaney CA, Resau JH, et al. Mycoplasmosis in ferrets.
Emerg Infect Dis [Internet]. 2012 Nov [date cited].
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1811.120072
DOI: 10.3201/eid1811.120072
QUOTE OF ABSTRACT:
Abstract
We report an outbreak of severe respiratory disease associated with a
novel Mycoplasma species in ferrets. During 2009--2012, a respiratory
disease characterized by nonproductive coughing affected [apx] 8,000
ferrets, 6--8 weeks of age, which had been imported from a breeding
facility in Canada. Almost 95% became ill, but almost none died.
Treatments temporarily decreased all clinical signs except cough.
Postmortem examinations of euthanized ferrets revealed
bronchointerstitial pneumonia with prominent hyperplasia of
bronchiole-associated lymphoid tissue. Immunohistochemical analysis
with polyclonal antibody against Mycoplasma bovis demonstrated
intense staining along the bronchiolar brush border. Bronchoalveolar
lavage samples from 12 affected ferrets yielded fast-growing,
glucose-fermenting mycoplasmas. Nucleic acid sequence analysis of
PCR-derived amplicons from portions of the 16S rDNA and RNA polymerase
B genes failed to identify the mycoplasmas but showed that they were
most similar to M. molare and M. lagogenitalium. These findings
indicate a causal association between the novel Mycoplasma species
and the newly recognized pulmonary disease.
END QUOTED ABSTRACT
Addendum:
I have just been told that the URL of the article might change in the
future at the CDC site. If so, the CDC site has a GOOD search engine
so at that time just use the search term:
ferret mycoplasma
at
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov
Please, add the note above to the post I just sent on Mycoplasma in
ferrets when you use the post in your own publications, articles,
websites, etc.
Addendum 2:
More in plain language for everyone's use:
<http://www.smallanimalchannel.com/critter-news/2012/10/05/mycoplasmosis-in-ferrets-research-study-released.aspx>
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
"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)
A nation is as free as the least within it.
[Posted in FML 7570]
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