From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2010-05-28 17:24:26 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Hemolytic Ecoli
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>, Barbara Clay <rocky_rrr@yahoo.com>
Hopefully, these journal articles will have info which can help:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535218/?tool=pubmed
(which can also be found at
1.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535218/?tool=pubmed
and at
http://jcm.asm.org/cgi/content/full/42/12/5904?view=long&pmid=15583337
(for the same article)
2.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11865409
3.
http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/reprint/37/3/617
4.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9467902
5.
http://www.odh.ohio.gov/pdf/idcm/ecoli.pdf
6.
<http://www.uptodate.com/patients/content/topic.do?topicKey=~E88D814C2SoI2CT
>
Note that survivors can have kidney damage life long.
E. coli infections of any type are usually from feeding raw
or very rare and in that grouping are often from raw beef.
Unfortunately, if forms that produce Shiga Toxin are
present then the E.coli is killed by cooking but much of the
toxin remains even after cooking. Luckily, if the forms
are not Shiga toxin producing forms then thorough cooking
will present the E. coli infection disease problems completely.
Some forms of E. coli have a high death rate among
ferrets who get them, for example, the Shiga Toxin
producing forms mentioned above.
There have been a LOT of beef recalls recently and it
really pays for everyone to sign up to get recall alerts
from the USDA and FDA or to visit their recall websites
at least once a week. Personally, I prefer the recall notices,
but usually these days lack time to carry the information
on so once again I'll remind people of those URLs:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/2008_news_releases/index.asp
and
http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm
Even then, some products are later split up and resold
under different names so the announcements may lag
in completeness for a while, so accidental E. coli poisonings
can occur.
E. coli stands for Escherichia coli. Escherichia is the genus
name and coli is the species name, kind of like how your
surname is your family name and your first name says which
of them you are.
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
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)
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