Rods In Dog Urine

Blood in urine hematuria cloudy or malodorous urine.

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

These are needed to get the best chance of getting rid of the infection. It is pretty severe. Antimicrobial therapy should be started as previously described and when urine culture is negative continued daily at the total daily dose. Active urinary sediment demonstrating bacteriuria and increased white blood cells.

In dogs recurrent utis are due to a different strain or species of bacteria 80 of the time. With 21 to 50 wbc and rod bacteria these are usually big red flags in an urinary tract infection bladder infection. Additionally female dogs are more susceptible to bacterial infections of the lower urinary tract than males. Confirmed with a microscopic urine sediment examination see figure 1.

A few of the more common signs include.