From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2011-08-02 16:31:15 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] abstracts (from Netherlands, from Denmark)
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
> Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Aug;17(8):1570-1.
> Enteric coronavirus in ferrets, the Netherlands.
> Provacia LB, Smits SL, Martina BE, Raj VS, Doel PV, Amerongen GV, Moorman-Roest H, Osterhaus AD, Haagmans BL.
> Source
> Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
> Abstract
> To the Editor: Coronaviruses (CoVs) are enveloped, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses that can cause acute and chronic respiratory, enteric, and central nervous system disease in a variety of animal species (1). Recently, a novel ferret enteric CoV (FRECV) was indentified in domesticated ferrets (Mustela putorius) in which epizootic catarrhal enteritis had been diagnosed; the illness was characterized by foul-smelling green diarrhea with high mucus content, lethargy, anorexia, and vomiting (2). Another ferret CoV emerged in ferrets for which systemic pyogranulomatous inflammation, resembling the clinical and pathologic features of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), was diagnosed (3-5).
>
> PMID: 21801658 [PubMed - in process]
in mink but also a ferret problem:
> Prev Vet Med. 2011 Jul 23. [Epub ahead of print]
> Persistent spatial clusters of plasmacytosis among Danish mink farms.
> Themudo GE, Ostergaard J, Ersbøll AK.
> Source
> Veterinary Epidemiology, Department of Large Animal Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegaardsvej 8, DK-1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
> Abstract
> Aleutian disease (Plasmacytosis) is caused by the Aleutian mink disease virus (AMDV), an autonomous parvovirus and affects many mustelid species, including the American mink (Neovisonvison). In Denmark, an eradication program reduced the prevalence of test-positive farms from 100% in 1976 to 15% in 1996. Nevertheless, the disease persists in the Vendsyssel district of Northern Jutland, despite the eradication efforts. In this study, we used spatial epidemiological analysis to test for spatial autocorrelation of the distribution of farms positive for the disease. We investigated 2375 farms in Denmark (342 of which were located in the Vendsyssel district), during the period 2000-2008. For the purpose of our study, a farm was considered positive when, on any test conducted in a year, at least three animals were tested positive. To detect spatial clusters, we performed a retrospective analysis with spatial scan statistics. We performed one analysis for each of the nine years (2000-2008). A separate analysis was conducted with only the farms in Vendsyssel included. The spatial cluster analysis revealed a significant cluster throughout the time period studied in Northern Jutland. The only exception was 2002 when an outbreak was detected in the southern part of Jutland, and not in the north. The farm-level prevalence of the disease in Denmark was highest in this year, suggesting that the outbreak in the south could have masked the persistent signal from the north; the northern cluster was still significant when analysing only the Vendsyssel populations. These results confirm that Northern Jutland continues to have a significantly higher number of cases than expected if the disease was randomly distributed.
>
> Copyright © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
>
> PMID: 21788091 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Sukie (not a vet)
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http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
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