Hassl Andreas
Abteilung für Medizinische Parasitologie, Klinisches Institut für Hygiene und Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Wien, Osterreich.
Wien Klin Wochenschr. 2004;116 Suppl 4:53-7.
The keeping and the breeding of exotic pets in privacy is a hobby with increasing popularity in industrialised countries. The growing demand for animals usually imported from the tropics, the growing demand for unprofessionally bred feeder organisms, and the increasing number of cases of faulty caring behaviour lead to the creation of new infectiological niches in the interface between exotic pet--nurse--feed--vivarium. These niches are filled preferably by ubiquitous, facultative pathogenic, stress- and age-deduced opportunists with a broad host spectrum. On the one hand these extraordinary germ faunas, relating to their compositions, may generate broad relevance in human medicine, lead to bizarre clinical pictures in specific cases, and may contribute to a reduction of the mean span of life of exotic pets kept in human care. On the other hand the quantitative composition of the fauna may also be a direct measure of the degree of stress the pets are suffering in captivity. Thus, a professional designation of the germ fauna of an exotic pet may contribute to an optimisation of the captivity conditions.
在工业化国家，私下饲养和繁育 exotic pets 正成为一种越来越流行的爱好。对通常从热带地区进口的动物的需求不断增加，对非专业繁育的 feeder organisms 的需求不断增加，以及护理行为不当的案例不断增多，导致在 exotic pet——护士——饲料——饲养箱的界面上形成了新的感染生态位。这些生态位最好由无处不在、兼性致病、受压力和年龄影响的机会主义者填充，它们具有广泛的宿主谱。一方面，这些特殊的菌群，就其组成而言，可能在人类医学中具有广泛的相关性，在特定情况下导致奇特的临床症状，并可能导致人类照料下的 exotic pets 的平均寿命缩短。另一方面，菌群的数量组成也可能直接衡量宠物在圈养中所遭受的压力程度。因此，对 exotic pet 的菌群进行专业鉴定可能有助于优化圈养条件。
