From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2009-06-15 23:05:34 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Looking in "Perspectives" on Tyzzer's Disease
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
I'll have to write and ask for more info but on page 12 of this
Michigan State Veterinary School publication (which we got due to
donations) it looks like Tyzzer's Disease may have been found and
confirmed in ferrets. I have to check on that to make sure the
article author got that right.
Tyzzer's is usually a rodent disease which causes cell death in the
liver and intestinal tract (though the nervous system is also
sometimes involved and sometimes the heart) and is caused by the
bacterial species Clostridium piliforme (C. piliforme) which was
previously called Bacillus piliformis. These bacteria are extremely
difficult to spot or to test for (though there has been a blood test
for rodents) and are usually found after death. The disease is very
hard to treat. Caught from fecal-oral route it causes death rapidly
through copious and very watery diarrhea and the cell damage caused.
In rodents the deaths can be within 48 hours. The spores from this
disease can persist in the environment for years but diluted bleach
does kill it. Stresses such as temperature or humidity extremes (or
malnutrition or parasites or...) can make animals more likely to get
the illness.
I'll write to Dr. Kiupel to see if this actually HAS been found in
ferrets.
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
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
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