Challenging case

Re: Challenging case

Glenn Hodgson — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:25:58 GMT

Re test for ehrlichia? Looks and smells like it... I spent some time in Costa Rica and most dogs had it there, this sounds very similar.

Doxy was a good idea, I would agree

Get a pathologist to look at a blood smear if you haven't thus far?

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Hannah Wynne Richards — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:33:47 GMT

Were the resits actually restands?

Wynne

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Martin Atkinson — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:27:32 GMT

[quote user="Anthony Dennison"]Must have been some brutal resits.[/quote]Yeah...examination by ordeal, they didn't take any slackers back then. I reckon they should introduce castration as punishment in 'I'm a Celebrity' at least they would then win a Darwin award and spare us future generations of Z list celebrities!!

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Anthony Dennison — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:58:45 GMT

[quote user="Martin Atkinson"] A vet I saw practice with lost one of his testicles to it[/quote]

Must have been some brutal resits.

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Martin Atkinson — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:43:22 GMT

[quote user="Sammy82"]Orchitis and periodic fever/flare up of symptoms let me think of brucellosis too.[/quote]I know I had it as a student, I had to re-sit my second year (too much beer, too many girls and not enough work had nothing to do with it)! A vet I saw practice with lost one of his testicles to it (Brucellosis that is)!

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Sammy82 — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:26:09 GMT

Orchitis and periodic fever/flare up of symptoms let me think of brucellosis too. Maybe B. melitiensis (sheep and goats)?

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Martin Atkinson — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:54:52 GMT

+1 for lymph node biopsy. Sounds like it may be some evil 'foreign' disease. How reliable are the parasite tests? How about Brucella?

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Yantha Smyth — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:51:34 GMT

Perhaps do an excisional biopsy of a lymph node?- histo may be more conclusive than cytology.