Tri trichomonas foetus

Re: Tri trichomonas foetus

Saskia Quinn — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:23:40 GMT

Steph, cross over to the vetnurse arms!!!!

Re: Tri trichomonas foetus

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:22:42 GMT

anyone else?

Re: Tri trichomonas foetus

Sal the 1st — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:16:03 GMT

have looked at swabs myself usually from the same persian breeder- as previously mentioned doesnt travel well (unless I was doing it wrong?). Quite satisfying when you find them

Re: Tri trichomonas foetus

Fiona Leathers — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:59:49 GMT

I saw a lot of this when I worked in Edinburgh and it was mainly pedigee cats such as British Shorthairs or Persians.

We used to do a rectal swab, place on slide with normal saline and look through microscope straight away - if you wait even 5 minutes they disappear. They should appear like little wiggly rods.

Now SAC in Edinburgh do a PCR on 3 day pooled faecal samples, its much easier to diagnosis.

Before this we used to send them off and it would always come back negative, but that was because the little blighters don't stand up to travel!!!

Re: Tri trichomonas foetus

Steph Worsley — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:35:02 GMT

we have been testing for it on our chonic d+ casesfor a bit, 3 pooled samples, sent to idexx.

Cant say wehave had +ve results unless they have passed me by lol. Iwork at a referral place so cant say if normal practices are testing for it on a regular basis or not

Sorry i coldn't be more help