Specific antibiotics must be used early in the course of the disease. Some evidence indicates that this disease can be transmitted to pregnant women. Therefore, all necessary precautions should be taken to prevent this possibility. A wide variety of other bacteria can cause illness in pet mice and rats. Your veterinarian is best equipped to diagnose and prescribe medications for these diseases.
Abscesses commonly result from wounds when they have gone unnoticed and untreated.
Abscesses usually must be surgically opened because the relatively sold nature of rodent pus precludes lancing and draining them. Only a few of the most important viral infections among them will be discussed. It often complicates chronic murine pneumonia, increasing the death rate. This virus is very unlikely to infect pet mice unless they were acquired from a colony with this infection already established within its members. Nursing mice and those being weaned are the most commonly and seriously infected.