I had recently a camel in the hospital for chronic weight loss and diarrhea. The camel was loaded with trichostrongyle type eggs and on bacterial culture of the feces we detected Salmonella. The blood work of the animal showed abnormal liver values and other than that it was not too bad. He was never leukopenic or had a high fever. I treated him with Ceftiofur and Enrofloxacin, as well as deworming, rumen juice, fluids, etc, but the animal deteriorated rapidly and I had to put it down. On necropsy we found the button like ulcerations in the GI tract and I think he might got toxic from the salmonella ( we are also investigating other reasons for him to deteriorate). Anyway, his buddy a 5 year old camel was also infected but does not show any clinical signs. My question is would you actually treat this camel or would you wait until it shows clinical signs? I would appreciate all your input on salmonellosis in camels.
Tags: camel, salmonella, salmonellosis
November 9, 2008 at 8:16 pm |
May the antibiotic you used for the first camel is not effective for the particular strain of the Salmonella you are dealing with, i will suggest you do more laboratory work by trying to know the specie of the Salmonella and the try antibiotic sensitivity testing before using the right antibiotic, expect if where you practice you don’t have facilities for that then use broad spectrum antibiotics and preferably per Os because from the necropsy findings most of the lesions concentrate in the G.I.Tract.
Thank you for sharing your practice with us. I hope my thinking will be useful.
Dr M.S. Abubakar
Department of Veterinary Pathology and Microbiology
Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria
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