What causes wasting in marmosets?
Carol L. Emerson, a former research Veterinarian at the Wisconsin Primate Research Center, wrote the following: This question “… has no specific answer. Almost anything that upsets marmosets will result in wasting, unless you are very careful. Wasting is really a secondary consequence of : chronic or acute disease/infection of ALL kinds, gut upsets, too cool room temperatures, disturbance of colony due to construction/too many visitors/frequent loud noises nearby, inappropriate diet, “stress”, and the list goes on. Wasting is a generalised heterogeneous end-state following any or a combination of the above insults. The best thing to do is to focus on the actual cause of your problem and not to just try and treat the wasting as there is no single treatment for wasting: it is caused by too many things. A good author to search for regarding so-called marmoset wasting syndrome is C.M. Hawkey between 1980-1996. Chris showed that wasting is not an actual syndrome, its just the end result o
Carol L. Emerson, a Research Veterinarian at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, wrote the following: This question “… has no specific answer. Almost anything that upsets marmosets will result in wasting, unless you are very careful. Wasting is really a secondary consequence of : chronic or acute disease/infection of ALL kinds, gut upsets, too cool room temperatures, disturbance of colony due to construction/too many visitors/frequent loud noises nearby, inappropriate diet, “stress”, and the list goes on. Wasting is a generalised heterogeneous end-state following any or a combination of the above insults. The best thing to do is to focus on the actual cause of your problem and not to just try and treat the wasting as there is no single treatment for wasting: it is caused by too many things. A good author to search for regarding so-called marmoset wasting syndrome is C.M. Hawkey between 1980-1996. Chris showed that wasting is not an actual syndrome, its just the end result
