From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2011-08-16 01:53:37 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] ECE or not ECE
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
On Aug 15, 2011, at 9:23 PM, ben wrote:
> We may have cases of ECE in South Australia. However the vet insists it it is ECE but doesn't offer a differential diagnosis.
>
The logical thing is for the vets involved to send specimens to the team which can check for the disease genetically, that is the team in Michigan State. Yes, they accept international specimens, in fact, they worked with teams in Europe on the new mutant form of ECE that presents like FIP.
Have your vets open
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
to find out not only the latest on the illness and its variant in
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Diseases/Gastrointestinal.pdf
but also to find out how to send specimens in
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Diagnostics.php
and you can also find a presentation in
http://www.ferretcongress.org/sym2011/phxpdf/
by clicking open the relevant presentation by Dr. Matti Kiupel:
http://www.ferretcongress.org/sym2011/phxpdf/FerretCoronaviruses-Kiupel.pdf
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
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