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Anyone know if blister disease or the causitive/accompanying illness is or could be hereditary?

...because I read that certain isolates from "blister disease" are unproven to be causal or commensal and theoretically it is possible to be spread to the permeable egg as it passes through the cloaca at oviposition. I have also read many organisms lay dormant until the individual becomes immunosuppressed then opportunistically become pathogenic. So I wonder, if any offspring from an affected or once affected animal has contracted such an illness after having no other direct contact, with no other logical explanation evident.

The albumin of an egg does have anti bacterial and anti viral enzymes, which protect the embryo from infection.
However if an egg were to be infected, this would not be considered hereditary. The term hereditary has to do with inheriting certain genes from the parent's genetic makeup. For example color, size, shape, etc. An egg acquiring pathogens from it's pass through the cloaca will still be considered as to being infected with the disease not inheriting it.

Thank you mahlerfan.