From:
"slfferret"
Date: 2010-07-07 18:54:21 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] FIP
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
FIP is a Corone virus. What are the signs with a infected ferret. Is there a blood test for the virus? Is this something that symptoms can come and go over time?
Arita
[Ferrets do NOT get the coronavirus that causes FIP,
BUT some get a mutation of ECE that causes FIP-like
symptoms which is why it is called "FIP-like" in ferrets.
There now have been multiple genetic studies showing
that this disease in ferrets is a mutant of ECE which
behaves like FIP, instead of a mutant of FIP which changed
so that ferrets could get it.
These will help you:
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Publications.php
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18424841
http://vet.sagepub.com/content/45/2/236.full.pdf+html
which is the full text of
Mustela putorius
Peritonitis in the Domestic Ferret
Clinicopathologic Features of a Systemic
Coronavirus-Associated Disease Resembling Feline
Infectious Peritonitis
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL11042
This goes into how the more general test for coronaviruses
in general can confuse people:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL9546
symptoms (from one of the earliest discussions on this
disease before the genetic testing of the coronavirus:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YPG662
Both forms of ECE are discussed in:
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Diseases/Gastrointestinal.pdf
starting a bit below a third of the way down the
presentation's PDF.
Also:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20079778
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18424841
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18263918
and more
-- Moderator]
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