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zeec
at Sun Nov 25 03:05:10 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by zeec ]
I hate to disagree Ed but here's MY 2cents.
Although I value your opinion, septicemia by definition is a serious infection that overwhelms the body's ability to host an immune response and leads to septic shock which is what kills. It can lead to a lot of things and Acute renal failure ( by virtue of renal hypoperfusion from massive venoarterial dilation, among other things), but renal failure cannot result in septicemia because there has to be a pathogen that " gets out of hand"
what causes Septicemia? Any infectious etiology including viral, bacterial and/or fungal. Also there's is no " picture" of septicemia other than microscopically. Blood under the scutes is not the hallmark of septicemia, and the animal can be well septic without it.
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