so ferrets MIGHT also be vulnerable if the vulnerability extends more
widely in Carnivora. This is the first time it has been found in a pet
so more is unknown than known.

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News from the ICAAC meeting: The "Indian superbug" NDM-1 -- actually
a gene which encodes an enzyme which confers resistance to almost all
known antibiotics -- has been found for the first time in a pet,
somewhere in the United States.

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see article for further info and also go to
http://www.promedmail.org

and open
16 Sep 2012 NDM-1 carrying Enterobacteriaceae - USA (02): feline

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/ndm-icaac-3

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.

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