Some vets over here in germany have developed an IBD test.
It works, we´ve tried it many times.
If we buy a new snake we put it in our quarantaine room for 6 months, a few days after we bought it we make the first IBD-blood-test,than after 3 or 5 months the second one.
If there are inclusion bodys in the blood the snake is surely infected. If the vet find no inclusion bodys after the second test the snake should be clean. We have also proved the test with a biopsie and it always proved out to be save, means if there are inclusion bodys in the blood, they are also in the liver and other organs.IBD is a serios problem in boa breeding and should have more attention in the boa community. Some vets believe that when a boa is infected as a baby it can live 5 or more years with the desise without any symptoms, if it gets infected as adult they live not longer than two years with it. Also the "star gaising symptom" is a very seldom thing most of the infected boas die with respiratory or digesting system desises.


Greetings from Germany


SIEGI


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• Can IBD be seen in bloodwork??? - speedingbandit, Fri Jun 9 00:47:14 2006
• Yes, it works ! - Siegi, Fri Jun 9 06:54:42 2006
• RE: Yes, it works ! What are you saying - mchambers, Fri Jun 9 08:09:55 2006
• RE: Please give contact info. - PastelDream, Fri Jun 9 13:26:48 2006
• RE: Can IBD be seen in bloodwork??? - redmoon, Fri Jun 9 08:59:26 2006