Post-operative surgical site infection in a dog.

Can Vet J

Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery (Kent, Boozer, Platt), Athens Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Infectious Disease, and Department of Population Health (Sanchez), College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA; Section of Neurology/Neurosurgery, Red Bank Veterinary Hospital, Tinton Falls, New Jersey 07724, USA (Glass); Department of Clinical Sciences, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA (Freeman).

Published: September 2017

Following decompressive surgery for degenerative lumbosacral stenosis, a 6-year-old German shepherd dog developed a subcutaneous infection at the surgical site and discospondylitis at the lumbosacral intervertebral disc. subsp. serotype Dublin was recovered from the surgical site. of a different serovar was isolated from a sample of the raw meat-based diet that the owner fed the dog.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5556475PMC

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