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Normal Mouth and Intestinal Flora of the Ferret (Mustefa Furo L.)

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ALTHOUGH the ferret is widely used as an experimental animal, particularly in the study of virus diseases, very little work has been done on the commensal bacteria of the animal itself. Some work on its pathological conditions has been published by Hughes1, Momberg-Jorgensen2, Symmers and Thomson3, Symmers, Thomson and Iland4, and Skulski and Symmers5; but none has been found concerning the bacterial flora which can commonly be isolated from the mouth and intestine of the healthy ferret. The present investigation was made to study this flora, in a colony of tuberculosis-free ferrets, maintained in first-class conditions, which has its own unit of breeding gills, and is augmented at intervals by fresh stock purchased from breeders in the surrounding area.

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DAVIES, M. Normal Mouth and Intestinal Flora of the Ferret (Mustefa Furo L.). Nature 175, 1048 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/1751048a0

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