Message Number: SG6151 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2003-09-28 02:25:25 UTC
Subject: RE: vet troubles
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <2660090.1064715925481.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

Author wrote:
> This doesn't really make sense to me, I'm afraid.
> It may be that the vet used a lubricated swab (though it is easier to ask a person to bring in a fecal sample).

Let me clarify this: the sampling makes sense. What don't follow as caused by sampling are the later problems. You know, sometimes infections are present which don't show up on a first fecal smear.