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Health / Has anyone heard of a fungus called zygomycetes?
« on: February 11, 2011, 09:18:07 AM »
Hello!
I'm wondering if anyone in this forum has encountered a fungus calles zygomycetes in your chinchillas? Anyone heard of it at all?
The reason why I'm asking is that one of my sister's females suddenly became ill a couple of weeks ago and we needed to put her to sleep. We sent her to a laboratory for an autopsy and the veterinarian sent some tissuesamples to spain and got the following results:
Cardiomyopathy (cause unknown)
Pneumonia (cause unknown)
the whole intestines was full of this zygomycetes-fungus (cause unknown)
The veterinatian will send uss the full autopsyreport, this is just what we know from our e-mail correspondence.
Accordingly to the veterinarian this fungus exists in soil and is not contagious to other chinchillas. The only question then is how she got it?! Through the hay? My sister feeds them only hay, chinchillapellets and regular water...
What do you think? Help is needed because almost no one has ever heard of this before here in Sweden!
Best regards,
Emelie Tollin
I'm wondering if anyone in this forum has encountered a fungus calles zygomycetes in your chinchillas? Anyone heard of it at all?
The reason why I'm asking is that one of my sister's females suddenly became ill a couple of weeks ago and we needed to put her to sleep. We sent her to a laboratory for an autopsy and the veterinarian sent some tissuesamples to spain and got the following results:
Cardiomyopathy (cause unknown)
Pneumonia (cause unknown)
the whole intestines was full of this zygomycetes-fungus (cause unknown)
The veterinatian will send uss the full autopsyreport, this is just what we know from our e-mail correspondence.
Accordingly to the veterinarian this fungus exists in soil and is not contagious to other chinchillas. The only question then is how she got it?! Through the hay? My sister feeds them only hay, chinchillapellets and regular water...
What do you think? Help is needed because almost no one has ever heard of this before here in Sweden!
Best regards,
Emelie Tollin