Rods In Dog Urine

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

Rods in dog urine.

Chemical estimations of leukocytes are invalid in cats and only occasionally valid in dogs on urine dipsticks so they must always be confirmed cytologically. Some dogs with bacterial infections of the lower urinary tract may not show any signs but many more do. Therefore antimicrobial culture and susceptibility is still indicated. Confirmed with a microscopic urine sediment examination see figure 1.

In dogs recurrent utis are due to a different strain or species of bacteria 80 of the time. 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. With 21 to 50 wbc and rod bacteria these are usually big red flags in an urinary tract infection bladder infection. It is pretty severe.

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

A few of the more common signs include.