From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2011-08-16 01:59:22 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] ECE or not ECE
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Oh, one other thing: a general coronavirus test could be done and many labs can do those. It will not tell you if there is ECE but if the right one is done, BUT it will tell if a coronavirus has been present and for ferrets that narrows the possibilities down pretty far since we'd all have heard if you have a SARS outbreak thereĀ
There is some info on this in the FHL Archives:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL9546
including
> To diagnose this disease histopath and immunohistochemistry
> staining is needed. Sounds like your pathologist did these 2 tests.
> Most vet labs can do these 2 tests.They use the same monoclonal
> antibody (FIP V3-70) for cats and ferrets with the IHC staining.
> Now what Michigan State can do that most labs cannot do is to
> sequence the coronavirus. This is to test for what strain of coronavirus
> is causing the problem and may help them develop a PCR or other
> test that can be used for this disease. Thus if your pathologist still has
> frozen tissue or formalin tissue, the folks at Michigan State will likely
> be interested in them.
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