From:
Debbie Hunton
Date: 2005-06-19 18:25:48 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] H. pylori in ferrets?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <27168535.1119206160419.JavaMail.nobody@magnesium.smartgroups.com>
In reference to Sukie's post:
Sukie Crandall <sukie@mac.com> wrote:
Mike, I wonder if the vet was looking at things like:
http://www.vetmed.wisc.edu/pbs/zoonoses/Helicobacter/helicoref.html
(a bibliography on H. pylori as a possible zoonotic disease)
http://web.mit.edu/comp-med/postdoc/selectedpublications/publications.htm
I found the following two references which refer to H. mustelae AND H. pylori in the
same article:
Otto G, Fox JG, Wu P-Y, Taylor NS. Eradication of Helicobacter mustelae from the
ferret stomach: an animal model of Helicobacter (Campylobacter) pylori
chemotherapy. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 34:1232-1236, 1990.
Fox JG, Correa P, Taylor NS, Lee A, Otto G, Murphy JC, Rose R. Helicobacter mustelae
associated gastritis in ferrets: an animal model of Helicobacter pylori gastritis in
humans. Gastroenterology 99:352-361, 1990.
So far, though, other species were mentioned, not ferret unless I
missed them*. All of the infection reports I noticed in ferrets
were H. mustelae, not H. pylori.
These are not necessarily infection reports, but may be where some confusion came
from...
Debbie
[Moderator's Note: Good point: someone may have confused an animal model
mention to mean that the same species of Helicobacter was involved, although Fox's
studies in ferrets modeling Helicobacter instead used the H. mustelae species of
that bacterium genus in the ones I've read.]