The illness behaves in dogs like it does in pigs, so if ferrets can get
it there might be the same presentation.
http://www.promedmail.org/direct.php?id=3D20130913.1940858
Two short quoted segments:
Affected dogs have exhibited similar signs including vomiting, bloody
diarrhea, weight loss, and lethargy. [These are the same clinical
signs that pigs with circovirus have. - Mod.TG] ...
Canine circovirus is newly isolated and there is very little
information available about the virus, where it came from and how it
spreads. The limited research available shows that canine circovirus
can cause vasculitis and hemorrhaging in infected dogs.
End of those quoted segments
and the earlier:
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/4/12-1390_article.htm
which is
Volume 19, Number 4ÂApril 2013
Research
Circovirus in Tissues of Dogs with Vasculitis and Hemorrhage
Linlin Li, Sabrina McGraw, Kevin Zhu, Christian M. Leutenegger, Stanley
L. Marks, Steven Kubiski, Patricia Gaffney, Florante N. Dela Cruz Jr,
Chunlin Wang, Eric Delwart, and Patricia A. Pesavento
Author affiliations: Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco,
California, USA (L. Li, E. Delwart); University of California, San
Francisco (L. Li, E. Delwart); University of California School of
Veterinary Medicine, Davis, California, USA (S. McGraw, K. Zhu, S. L.
Marks, S. Kubiski, P. Gaffney, F. N. Dela Cruz Jr, P.A. Pesavento);
IDEXX Laboratories, West Sacramento, California, USA (C.M.
Leutenegger); Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford,
California, USA (C. Wang)
Abstract
We characterized the complete genome of a novel dog circovirus (DogCV)
from the liver of a dog with severe hemorrhagic gastroenteritis,
vasculitis, and granulomatous lymphadenitis. DogCV was detected by PCR
in fecal samples from 19/168 (11.3%) dogs with diarrhea and 14/204
(6.9%) healthy dogs and in blood from 19/409 (3.3%) of dogs with
thrombocytopenia and neutropenia, fever of unknown origin, or past tick
bite. Co-infection with other canine pathogens was detected for 13/19
(68%) DogCV-positive dogs with diarrhea. DogCV capsid proteins from
different dogs varied by up to 8%. In situ hybridization and
transmission electron microscopy detected DogCV in the lymph nodes and
spleens of 4 dogs with vascular compromise and histiocytic
inflammation. The detection of a circovirus in tissues of dogs expands
the known tropism of these viruses to a second mammalian host. Our
results indicate that circovirus, alone or in co-infection with other
pathogens, might contribute to illness and death in dogs.
See link given for full article.
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/
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.
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