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Laboratory Animals, 1987 A cage for ferrets is described that consists of a plastic box with a metal sliding-grill top and metal front lattice. It contains a new feeding system using dishes that can be removed without opening the cage. The cages are kept in mobile racks and are commercially available.
W, Scharmann, D, Wolff
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Animals, 2023 The domestic ferret (Mustela putorius furo) is a popular companion pet in the United States, with an estimated population of 500,000. Despite being obligate carnivores with a fast digestive system, little is known about their gut microbiomes.
Elisa Scarsella +5 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 Improving COVID-19 intervention strategies partly relies on animal models to study SARS-CoV-2 disease and immunity. In our pursuit to establish a model for severe COVID-19, we inoculated young and adult male ferrets intranasally or intratracheally with ...
Koen van de Ven +10 more
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Veterinary Clinics of North America: Exotic Animal Practice, 2023 Skin diseases commonly affect pet ferrets, with neoplastic, endocrine, and parasitic diseases being the most common. This review includes clinical presentation, diagnostic workup, and treatment of diseases with a dermatologic presentation in ferrets.
Halck, Mette Louise +2 more
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Multi-Influenza HA Subtype Protection of Ferrets Vaccinated with an N1 COBRA-Based Neuraminidase
Viruses, 2023 The influenza neuraminidase (NA) is a promising target for next-generation vaccines. Protection induced by vaccination with the computationally optimized broadly reactive NA antigen (N1-I COBRA NA) was characterized in both influenza serologically naive ...
Amanda L. Skarlupka +4 more
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Journal of Nutritional Science, 2018 Ferrets have become a common companion animal. But no data are available on the French population of ferrets. The goal of the survey was to characterise this population, including demographic characteristics, husbandry, reported medical care and feeding ...
Géraldine Blanchard +5 more
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The Dynamics of the Ferret Immune Response During H7N9 Influenza Virus Infection
Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 As the recent outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has highlighted, the threat of a pandemic event from zoonotic viruses, such as the deadly influenza A/H7N9 virus subtype, continues to be a major global health concern.
William S. J. Horman +10 more
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Complete Genome of Hepatitis E Virus from Laboratory Ferrets
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014 The complete genome of hepatitis E virus (HEV) from laboratory ferrets imported from the United States was identified. This virus shared only 82.4%–82.5% nt sequence identities with strains from the Netherlands, which indicated that the ferret HEV genome
Tian-Cheng Li +8 more
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Ferrets as Models for Influenza Virus Transmission Studies and Pandemic Risk Assessments
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 The ferret transmission model is extensively used to assess the pandemic potential of emerging influenza viruses, yet experimental conditions and reported results vary among laboratories.
Jessica A. Belser +10 more
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Housing and Environmental Enrichment of the Domestic Ferret: A Multi-Sector Survey
Animals, 2022 Ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) are kept and used in multiple sectors of society, but little is known about how they are housed and what environmental enrichment (EE) they may benefit from.
Alice M. M. Dancer +3 more
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