From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-04-13 16:52:18 UTC
Subject: RE: Bacteroids sp
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6905566.1113411138329.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Brandy, if you look at your last subject line on this in discussion:
http://www.smartgroups.com/message/viewdiscussion.cfm?gid=1423922&messageid=13403
the first two links that I give are in the site which both vet sites and human medical sites kept including as THE link to read about this bacterium.
It turns out that Bacteroid species are good at developing antibiotic resistence, so my suspiciion is that when they ran a culture they also did antibiotic testing to see which strain worked well on this particular one. Be extremely careful to give the antibiotics exactly right because of this bacterium's strong ability for becoming antibiotic resistant -- store it right, do not warm it, do not mess up on the timing, do not stop it early unless the vet says to, do not miss doses, etc. If the run is not enough and it is still sensitive to Amoxi it might need a longer run, or a strong varient, and if it develops a resistence then the infection may return and if the culture indicated other options in the meds tried then one of those will be used or a new culture will need to be grown and tested with other antibiotics.
You will notice in that site that luckily Bacteroids tends to encapsulate because it's not one you want moving around in the body.
It's quite an incredible site and it pays to skim till you hit paragraphs that are of use to you.