Rods In Dog Urine

Blood in urine hematuria cloudy or malodorous urine.

Rods in dog urine.

Active urinary sediment demonstrating bacteriuria and increased white blood cells. Chemical estimations of leukocytes are invalid in cats and only occasionally valid in dogs on urine dipsticks so they must always be confirmed cytologically. 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. A few of the more common signs include.

Your dog needs to go on some type of fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as baytril zeniquin or cipro. It is pretty severe. These are needed to get the best chance of getting rid of the infection. Confirmed with a microscopic urine sediment examination see figure 1.

Additionally female dogs are more susceptible to bacterial infections of the lower urinary tract than males. 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. Able to survive with little microaerophilic or no oxygen anaerobic actinomyces is rarely found as the single bacterial agent in a lesion.

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.