Rods In Dog Urine

Confirmed with a microscopic urine sediment examination see figure 1.

Rods in dog urine.

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. In dogs recurrent utis are due to a different strain or species of bacteria 80 of the time. Chemical estimations of leukocytes are invalid in cats and only occasionally valid in dogs on urine dipsticks so they must always be confirmed cytologically. A few of the more common signs include.

Therefore antimicrobial culture and susceptibility is still indicated. It is pretty severe. Active urinary sediment demonstrating bacteriuria and increased white blood cells. Your dog needs to go on some type of fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as baytril zeniquin or cipro.

Some dogs with bacterial infections of the lower urinary tract may not show any signs but many more do. Additionally female dogs are more susceptible to bacterial infections of the lower urinary tract than males. Blood in urine hematuria cloudy or malodorous urine. Antimicrobial therapy should be started as previously described and when urine culture is negative continued daily at the total daily dose.

Able to survive with little microaerophilic or no oxygen anaerobic actinomyces is rarely found as the single bacterial agent in a lesion.