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mink
a small mammal of the family Mustelidae; an aquatic carnivore much prized for its fur. Called also Mustela lutreola, M. vison.
Aleutian mink disease
see aleutian mink disease.
mink encephalopathy
a prion spongiform encephalopathy; there is similarity between this disease and scrapie produced experimentally in mink. There is a very long incubation period, hyperirritability, biting, paralysis, coma and death. Called also transmissible encephalopathy of mink, TEM.
mink enteritis
a condition caused by the mink enteritis virus, which is closely related to feline panleukopenia virus, and characterized by mucoid, sometimes blood-stained, diarrhea that may contain casts.
ranch mink
mink cultivated artificially on a mink farm or 'ranch'.
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Emergence of Mink enteritis virus and CPV Type 2 (CPV-2) Infection by Feline parvovirus was thought only to occur in cats (Feline panleukopenia virus, FPLV) or raccoons until the mid-1940s, when a similar disease with a mortality of up to 80% was observed in infected mink kits in Canada (1).
Feline host range of Canine parvovirus: recent emergence of new ... by Mochizuki, Masami / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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