Rods In Dog Urine

Active urinary sediment demonstrating bacteriuria and increased white blood cells.

Rods in dog urine.

Blood in urine hematuria cloudy or malodorous urine. Able to survive with little microaerophilic or no oxygen anaerobic actinomyces is rarely found as the single bacterial agent in a lesion. Your dog needs to go on some type of fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as baytril zeniquin or cipro. It is pretty severe.

A few of the more common signs include. However if rods are seen in the urine sediment of neutral or acidic urine e coli klebsiella spp enterobacter spp pseudomonas spp the antimicrobial sensitivity of the infecting organism is likely to be less predictable. Confirmed with a microscopic urine sediment examination see figure 1. With 21 to 50 wbc and rod bacteria these are usually big red flags in an urinary tract infection bladder infection.

Therefore antimicrobial culture and susceptibility is still indicated. These are needed to get the best chance of getting rid of the infection. Additionally female dogs are more susceptible to bacterial infections of the lower urinary tract than males. Actinomycosis is an infectious disease caused by gram positive branching pleomorphic can change shape somewhat between a rod and coccus rod shaped bacteria of the genus actinomyces most commonly the a.

Antimicrobial therapy should be started as previously described and when urine culture is negative continued daily at the total daily dose.