{"topic_id":"evidence_exotic_sugar_glider_husbandry_health","category":"evidence","context":"---\ntopic_id: evidence_exotic_sugar_glider_husbandry_health\ncategory: evidence\ntitle: \"Evidence cluster — Sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) husbandry, health & nutrition (peer-reviewed, Europe PMC)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Europe PMC (Europe PubMed Central) REST search, first-hand peer-reviewed abstracts, pulled 2026-08-01\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_sugar_glider_husbandry_health_2026-08-01.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-01\ntokens_estimated: 5331\nverification:\n  method: paraphrase\n  claims: 3\n  passed: 3\n  date: 2026-08-01\nsource_document: \"Peer-reviewed Sugar glider husbandry/health/nutrition literature (Europe PMC, first-hand abstracts)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Europe PMC\"\n  title: \"Evidence cluster — Sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) husbandry, health & nutrition (peer-reviewed, Europe PMC)\"\n  url: \"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-01\"\n  doc_type: \"first-hand abstracts (Europe PMC REST)\"\n  needs_review: false\ncopyright_note: \"Mixed licensing per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3: Open Access (CC BY) studies retained verbatim with attribution; non-Open-Access studies paraphrased as derived fact summaries (numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten).\"\nlicense: mixed\nauthority_tier: T2\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T2:oa-repo\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-04\n---\n\n# Evidence: Sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) husbandry, health & nutrition\n\nSource: Europe PMC (Europe PubMed Central) REST search — first-hand peer-reviewed abstract records, pulled 2026-08-01.\nQueries covered husbandry, health/disease/parasitology, and nutrition/feeding for Petaurus breviceps.\nThe cluster returns **3** representative studies with abstracts below. Abstract text is verbatim from source; each study is traceable by PMID.\n\n## Studies\n- **PMID 42432024 (2026, Scientific reports)** — *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Using conventional PCR and 18S rRNA metabarcoding, this case study identified trichomonads in four captive diarrheic companion animals—two sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps), a red-footed tortoise, and a Horsfield's tortoise. Metabarcoding detected Trichomitus batrachorum in both tortoises and low-level trichomonads in one sugar glider, and subsequent PCR confirmed trichomonads in all four, with Simplicimonas sp. and Pentatrichomonas hominis identified in the two sugar gliders; the findings extend the known host range and suggest possible clinical relevance in diarrheic animals.\n  Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42432024/\n- **PMID 42472037 (2026, Case reports in veterinary medicine)** — *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* Two 6-year-old intact female sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) with mammary adenocarcinoma presented with weight loss and lethargy and marsupial masses; each underwent complete marsupial excision with histopathology confirming primary mammary adenocarcinoma without vascular infiltration. One was disease-free at 12 months and the other well at 11 months, representing, to the authors' knowledge, the first reported survival beyond 11 months after surgical treatment of this cancer in P. breviceps, though long-term recurrence risk is unknown.\n  Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42472037/\n- **PMID 42053689 (2026, Veterinary research communications)** — *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* A 60-gram female sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) with a closed transverse femoral fracture was treated by open reduction and intramedullary pinning with a 0.8 mm pin. Postoperative care used a flat-walled enclosure to limit movement; the pin was removed after 70 days with clinical union and restored limb function. The authors note that, although pinning alone is usually insufficient for rotational control in small-animal orthopaedics, it sufficed here given species-specific anatomy and housing modification, and call for more case-series research.\n  Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42053689/\n## License & attribution\n\nMixed licensing per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3: Open Access (CC BY / CC BY-NC /\nCC BY-NC-ND) studies are reproduced verbatim with attribution under their specific\nCC license; non-Open-Access studies are paraphrased as derived fact summaries\n(numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten). Original records:\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42432024/\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42472037/\n- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42053689/\n\n## Cleaning removal log (2026-08-05, codebuddy)\nPMID 42329413 — agricultural land-system typology in Germany; no animal, not sugar glider\nPMID 42328068 — fermented herbal extracts on pig behaviour/health/productivity; livestock, different species\nPMID 41571885 — feed intake/digestibility in grazing horses; different species\nPMID 41981684 — microbiome of southern greater gliders (Petauroides volans); different species, not Petaurus breviceps\n","sources":["Europe PMC — Evidence cluster — Sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) husbandry, health & nutrition (peer-reviewed, Europe PMC) (retrieved 2026-08-01)"],"source":{"authority":"Europe PMC","title":"Evidence cluster — Sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) husbandry, health & nutrition (peer-reviewed, Europe PMC)","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42432024/","retrieved":"2026-08-01","ref":"PMID 42432024","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Peer-reviewed Sugar glider husbandry/health/nutrition literature (Europe PMC, first-hand abstracts)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_sugar_glider_husbandry_health_2026-08-01.txt"},"source_document":"Peer-reviewed Sugar glider husbandry/health/nutrition literature (Europe PMC, first-hand abstracts)","source_file":"pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_sugar_glider_husbandry_health_2026-08-01.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T2","fidelity":"paraphrase","license":"mixed","display_grade":"B"},"tokens_estimated":600,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}