I ran into a Bacterial sepsis problem that I'm still convinced was related to the particular rats I fed those particular Boas.The vet did fecal samples testing and also sent out pathology.
Test came back my vet said exactly what you stated Kelly. That all of these bacteria exist within the Boa already. To pin point the probable bacteria they went by unusually elevated numbers of bacteria.So those bacteria showing a much higher count than typical were considered the guilty parties. Of course there was no proof the rats were to blame except circumstantial type evidence and basic common sense.I believe it boiled down to a high fat issue in the rats causing a digestive failure leading to a bacteria bloom.All my Boas are clean and non stressed and each exposed to similar conditions for years. The only out of place issue was the type of rat fed to the Boas in question. In each case they were multi colored / Black hooded type rats(typically I usually only feed white rats and never anything huge or triple xxxx in size).These multi colored / Black hooded type rats Probably specifically genetically raised for use in Diabetes experiments,Hyper tension experiments,other obesity and heart related testing.
This seems to be the only logical answer in my particular
case,everything was considered
I'm not saying I can prove it was the rats but process of
elimination and some research left me with this answer.

. . . Lar M
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• Health of Collection Concern - killerchondros, Thu Apr 9 09:02:13 2009
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