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neospora_caninum
neosporosis,
caused by an organism called Neospora caninum.
Neosporosis was thought to be uniformly fatal. Not necessarily because
dogs couldn't live with the organism but because many couldn't and the
rest were usually euthanized due to the severe disabilities induced by
the parasite. To the best of anyone's knowledge at the time, Sandy,seen in
picture,was
the only adult dog functioning happily as a normal pet with neosporosis. Sandy was severely crippled. She had rigid rear limbs that
were terribly atrophied, almost making her appear to be walking with aid
of crutches in the rear.
She didn't know she was supposed to be too disabled to function so she
was doing it anyway.
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neutrophil_2
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probable_staph_pyoderma
The biggest mistake that people make when treating skin infections is
not treating them long enough. If an infection responds to antibiotics
and then recurs, it is a really good idea to use antibiotics for at least 6
weeks and possibly 8 or more weeks, to try to eliminate the infection. If
that doesn't work, it may be necessary to treat intermittently, or even
to treat continuously, to control some skin infections. Cephalexin is
usually a good choice since most of the time these are staph skin infections.
I know of no evidence that staph skin infections from dogs are contagious
to humans and there are only scattered reports in which vets worried over
potential contagiousness between dogs. Most of the time these are normal
bacterial residents of the dog's skin that just get out of hand because a
particular dog has some problem controlling them.
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