title: Zoonoses of ferrets, hedgehogs, and sugar gliders.
abstract: With urbanization, people live in close proximity to their pets. People often share their living quarters and furniture, and this proximity carries a new potential for pathogen transmission. In addition to the change in lifestyle with our pets, new exotic pets are being introduced to the pet industry regularly. Often, we are unfamiliar with specific clinical signs of diseases in these new exotic pets or the routes of transmission of pathogens for the particular species. This article reviews zoonoses that occur naturally in ferrets, hedgehogs, and sugar gliders, discussing the occurrence and clinical symptoms of these diseases in humans.
authors.affiliation: Exotics Medicine Service, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Alfort, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, 7 Avenue du Général de Gaulle, 94700 Maisons-Alfort, France. cppignon@vet-alfort.fr
authors.forename: Charly
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pignon
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mayer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D005289:Ferrets; D006364:Hedgehogs; D006801:Humans; D008394:Marsupialia; D009181:Mycoses / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary; D010273:Parasitic Diseases, Animal / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission; D057805:Pets; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission*