[ SHOWGSD-L ] Concerning Mycoplasma
- From: Ferraristr@xxxxxxx
- To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 08:54:21 EST
Thought you all would be interested in what Dr. Robert Hutchinson, leading
authority in canine reproduction has to say about mycoplasma.
I have also enclosed a link to additional questions and answers to canine
reproduction. http://www.dpca-breedered.com/reproseminarhutch.htm
4. Question: What about the dreaded mycoplasma?
Dr. Hutch:
Unfortunately, an article published in the early 90s blamed mycoplasma for
infertility in males, bitches aborting their puppies, husbands fooling
around with their secretaries. We as dog people jumped on this like there
was no tomorrow. Mycoplasma is a normal organism at all body openings. A
routine culture of a bitch's vaginal tract will show strep, staph, e coli,
pasteurella, and mycoplasma. The vaginal tract is not sterile so routine
culturing of a normal, healthy bitch is totally unwarranted. You need to
appreciate the purpose of normal flora or normal bacteria: they keep the BAD
bugs out so a routine culture, that shows mycoplasma, e coli, and strep, is
not a cause for treatment but a cause for celebration because the bitch is
normal
5. Question: What about bitches who did not become pregnant before
antibiotics, but do afterward?
Dr. Hutch:
Putting on bitches on antibiotics pre-breeding actually makes them more
prone to infectious disease by killing normal organisms, especially when we
use the GOOD drugs like Baytril. Occasionally, we may see a bitch with an
infection... but there will be signs of that infection - redness, abnormal
discharge, smelling - just like if you have an infection in your ear, you're
not going to not know it. Bacteria does not equal infection. When we see
problems with mycoplasma, for example, it is not the mycoplasma that caused
the problem. Mycoplasma only took the opportunity of the infection, just the
same as the staph on the skin causes a hot spot because the dog has fleas,
for example. Most of the individuals that see who do have mycoplasma
infection, would not have been prevented by a routine culture, as the
primary problem was stress, steroids, or other types of immune deficiency.
They are only secondary problems. Something like pyometritis is not caused
by routine bacteria; the normal bacteria were allowed to flare up by the
inflammation of the uterine lining
Pam Douglas
Starview Kennels
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