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Aucone
at Sat Nov 27 09:24:43 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Aucone ]
Certainly there are aspects of crypto that could be potentially attributed to a compromised immune system but I certainly don't think that it is that simple. For one, consideration of species specific Cryptosporidium could come into play. For instance, feeding an Ahaetulla prasina from southeast Asia an Anolis carolinensis from the southern U.S. exposes that snake to a potential group of parasites and bacteria that will differ, possibly significantly, from it's normal food source in the wild and that it's immune system cannot compensate. Or possibly, the Anolis carries crypto normally but the stress of capture and shipment lowers it's immune systems ability to keep it in check, allowing a bloom of Crypto. Then you purchase it for food purposes, it is not showing any signs and your not keeping it around long enough to see them because you feed it off to your snake. Now your snake has ingested a higher level of the bacteria to which it's immune system may not be able to compensate. I guess the point is that there are any number of other variables that can be mentioned but that there is not one clear cut answer, yet, as to how it is transmitted and how individual animals deal, or don't deal, with it. Either way, it is a bad disease to which hopefully further insight will yield better treatments.
Brian Aucone
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- DEAD!!! - Bushmaster, Tue Nov 23 04:42:32 2004
- RE: DEAD!!! - Aucone, Tue Nov 23 11:38:51 2004
- RE: Crypto - brianm, Tue Nov 23 12:04:05 2004
- RE: Crypto - Aucone, Tue Nov 23 17:14:27 2004
- RE: Crypto - rick gordon, Wed Nov 24 12:31:35 2004
 RE: Crypto - Aucone, Sat Nov 27 09:24:43 2004
- RE: DEAD!!! - Bushmaster, Tue Nov 23 16:23:56 2004
- Crypto... - regalringneck, Wed Nov 24 06:46:18 2004
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