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Pasturella

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Mama Doe
I came across this link about pasturella (warning there are pics of rabbits post mortems) http://www.lbah.com/word/pasteurella-rabbit/
It says that pasturella can cause head tilt which I had never realised.
No real point to this, just though I would share what I found. It does make me wonder if there would be specific signs a vet would look out for that would lead them to suspect one over the other. I've had 3 vets tell me they though Terrah had EC but non of them ever mentioned pasturella.
 
My Dexter has a head tilt due to Pasturella. The vet where I work was convinced it was EC as his blood test showed positive for EC, she couldn't understahnd how the specialist vet knew straight away that it was pasturella, but he also had an abcess in his eye and skull xrays showed pus in his inner ear (the reason behind the head tilt!) this wasn't found until I took him to an exotics specialist. His symptoms do not show as sneezing or "typical" pasturella that we would all think of, but his ear and eye say differently. He had to have his eye removed and periodically has to have long courses of antibiotics to keep his ear infection under control. My exotics vet says that it is very common and is often misdiagnosed as EC. It is apparently very painful for the bun and often penecillin injections are needed to penetrate the inner ear.
 
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