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      Mycobacteriosis in a Domestic Ferret ( Mustela putorius furo )

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          A 4-year-old spayed female ferret presented with a 2-month history of anorexia, vomiting and occasional diarrhea. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed thickening of the gastric wall and enlarged abdominal lymph nodes. Biopsy samples from the thickened gastric wall, enlarged abdominal lymph nodes and liver were taken during an exploratory laparotomy. Based on the histopathological examination, mycobacterium infection was diagnosed. The bacterial species could not be identified by additional diagnostic tests of feces, including fecal smear, culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The ferret was treated with prednisolone and multiple antimicrobials, including rifampicin, azithromycin and enrofloxacin, but did not improve with treatment and died 220 days after the first presentation.

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          Forty years of disinfectant failure: outbreak of postinjection Mycobacterium abscessus infection caused by contamination of benzalkonium chloride.

          Gordon Brown, Tejpratap S P Tiwari, Kenneth C. Jost … (2003)
          Benzalkonium chloride (BC) continues to be used as an antiseptic and contributes to serious outbreaks of disease. In July 1999, 6 postinjection joint infections caused by Mycobacterium abscessus were reported to the Texas Department of Health (Austin). We investigated this outbreak and identified 12 case patients who had been seen by the same physician and who had received an intra-articular or periarticular steroid injection during the period of 1 April through 31 July 1999. M. abscessus was cultured from either joint fluid or periarticular soft-tissue specimens obtained from 10 patients. We cultured environmental samples, and we compared isolates recovered from case patients with environmental isolates by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR). Four environmental samples containing diluted BC yielded M. abscessus. Clinical and environmental strains of M. abscessus were indistinguishable by RAPD-PCR. The case patients' strain was resistant to BC. The use of BC as an antiseptic should be discontinued.
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            Epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis infection in feral ferrets (Mustela furo) in New Zealand: II. Routes of infection and excretion.

            I Lugton, Daniel Caley, G Wobeser … (1997)
            Detailed necropsies of 228 ferrets captured from eight areas in the North and South Islands provided material for an investigation into the epidemiology of tuberculosis in wild ferrets. Seventy-three of the 228 (32%) animals examined were diagnosed as tuberculous, by culture of pooled lymph nodes and detailed histopathological examination. The prevalence of bovine tuberculosis was 96% in 24 ferrets taken from areas in which tuberculous possums were common. None of 35 animals under 4 months of age were found to be infected, and the prevalence of infection was shown to rise with age, such that for each 6 month age increment there was a 2.8 times greater risk of becoming infected. The most common route of infection appeared to be via the alimentary tract, as 79% of 38 animals, in which the initial lesions could be reasonably determined, had these lesions associated with the digestive tract. Samples from potential sites of excretion from infected ferrets were submitted for culturing. The most common route of excretion was via the oral cavity, with M. bovis recovered from 15 of 64 (23%) oral swabs. Mycobacterium bovis was also isolated from four of 64 (6%) tracheobronchial lavage samples, ten of 63 (16%) faecal samples, two of 29 (7%) urine samples and one of 8 (12.5%) mammary glands. The disease in ferrets appears to be principally maintained by ingestion of tuberculous carrion. Although a moderate number of ferrets excrete M. bovis orally, there appears to be only minor intraspecific transmission by bite wounding. The findings provided no evidence to support the occurrence of pseudo-vertical transmission.
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              Present epidemiology of tuberculosis. Prevention and control programs.

              Àngels Orcau, Joan Caylá, José Martínez (2011)
              Tuberculosis (TB) has affected humanity since the beginning of the recorded time and is associated with poverty, malnutrition, overcrowding, and immunosuppression. Since Koch discovered the infectious nature of the disease in 1882, knowledge about its history and physiopathology has advanced, but it continues to be a global public health problem. More than 9 million new cases occurred in 2008 worldwide (with an incidence of 139/100,000 inhabitants), of whom more than one million died. Over half million of the cases presented with multidrug resistant-TB. Africa represents the continent with the highest incidence and the most HIV co-infection. The situation in Eastern Europe is also worrisome because of the high incidence and frequency drug resistance. In developed countries, TB has been localized in more vulnerable populations, such as immigrants and persons with social contention. There is an increase of extra-pulmonary presentation in this context, related to non-European ethnicity, HIV infection, and younger age. In Spain, the increasing immigrant population has presented a need to improve coordination between territories and strengthen surveillance The global control plan is based on the DOTS strategy, although the objectives and activities were redefined in 2006 to incorporate the measurement of global development, and community and healthcare strengthening. Adequate control measures in a more local context and continual activity evaluation are necessary to decrease the burden of suffering and economic loss that causes this ancient disease. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier España S.L. All rights reserved.
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Vet Med Sci
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J. Vet. Med. Sci
                Journal ID (publisher-id): JVMS
                Title: The Journal of Veterinary Medical Science
                Publisher: The Japanese Society of Veterinary Science
                ISSN (Print): 0916-7250
                ISSN (Electronic): 1347-7439
                Publication date (Electronic): 10 January 2014
                Publication date (Print): May 2014
                Volume: 76
                Issue: 5
                Pages: 705-709
                Affiliations
                [1) ]Miwa Exotic Animal Hospital, 1–25–5 Komagome, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170–0003, Japan
                [2) ]Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1–1–1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113–8657, Japan
                Author notes
                [* ]Correspondence to: Nakata, M., Miwa Exotic Animal Hospital, 1–25–5 Komagome, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170–0003, Japan. e-mail: azu05pooh@ 123456hotmail.com
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                Publisher ID: 13-0521
                DOI: 10.1292/jvms.13-0521
                PMC ID: 4073339
                PubMed ID: 24419874
                SO-VID: 9359d3ab-ba77-40ff-ac9b-4064e5ca7d05
                Copyright © ©2014 The Japanese Society of Veterinary Science
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                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) License.

                History
                Date received : 18 October 2013
                Date accepted : 25 December 2013
                Categories
                Subject: Note
                Subject: Internal Medicine

                Keywords: ferret,mycobacterium infection
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                Keywords: ferret, mycobacterium infection

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