Although veterinarians are instrumental in discouraging the keeping of primates as pets, they also have a key role in the welfare and health of captive primates, by providing specialised veterinary care for these animals and advice to their owners. This article outlines the husbandry of New World...
Many people keep small mammals as pets. These include rodents (rats, mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, and chinchillas), rabbits, ferrets, and other small mammals such as sugar gliders and hedgehogs. These animals present challenges from a toxicologic standpoint for several reasons. First, ...
(Shutterstock.com)Small mammals have exploded in popularity as pets over the past few years. Clients with these pets actively seek opportunities to enhance the lives of their small mammal pets just the same as they want to supplement the lives of cats and dogs with games, hiding spaces and ...
The authors have assembled 216 well-illustrated problem cases involving various rodents, carnivores, primates and other small mammals kept as pets (excluding dogs and cats), set out in the characteristic style of the "self-assessment color review" series, with solutions provided on the reverse of...
Chinchillas have been successfully maintained in captivity for almost a century. They have only recently been recognized as excellent, long-lived, and robust pets. Most of the literature on diseases of chinchillas comes from farmed chinchillas, whereas reports of pet chinchilla diseases continue to be...
Although M tuberculosis can induce progressive disease in humans, nonhuman primates, dogs, swine, and cats, infection in domestic pets is rare. More common among MTC organisms are infections with M bovis and M microti. Infections causing pyogranulomatous hepati...
Monkeypox virus, likesmallpox, is a member of theOrthopoxvirusgroup. There are 2 distinct clades (groups of similar organisms descended from a common ancestor): the West African clade and the Congo Basin clade. Despite its name, nonhuman primates are not monkeypox virus reservoirs. Although the...
Diseases of Small Domestic Rodents, Second Edition Not so long ago, hamsters, gerbils and mice were the only rodents kept as pets. Now the variety of rodents and the increasing popularity of these small cre... VCG Richardson - Diseases of Small Domestic Rodents, Second Edition 被引量: 0...
as well as the OD values are shown in Desk 2. Positive ratios had been calculated based on the requirements of tuberculosis in non-human primates. The outcomes showed that monkeys provided positive antibody replies to PPD and MOT and harmful antibody replies to CFP10, ESAT-6, and CFP10-ESAT...
(s) of security, aswell as how enhancing alters immunity to wildtype and rising strains recently, remain understood incompletely. Right here we deeply profiled the humoral immune system response within a cohort of nonhuman primates immunized with a well balanced recombinant full-length SARS-CoV-2 ...