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A Disease resembling distemper epidemic among ferrets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

E. T. C. Spooner
E. T. C. Spooner
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From the Department of Pathology, Cambridge
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1. Material taken from a ferret sick of a disease epidemic among breeders' stocks in 1935 was shown to produce a similar disease when inoculated into normal ferrets.

2. The behaviour of the experimental disease and its pathology indicated that it was a form of distemper, antigenically related to dog distemper, but differing in minor points from the description of canine distemper in the ferret given by Dunkin & Laidlaw.

3. Associated with the disease was a strain of Brucella bronchiseptica which may possibly have been responsible for the high incidence of bronchopneumonia observed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 1938 , pp. 79 - 89
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1938

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