Paramyxovirus

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I purchased 16 normal adult females from Steve Ori at A Forgeten Realm back in December. A couple came in with what we thought was R I. So I got some baytrel and isolated the couple that came in sick. I had bought a lot of snakes esle where around the same time as I was just getting in to this, so I wasn't QT any of the other stuff. Around mid Januray I had one of the sick ones in qt die and had a necropsy done and lungs were full of crap. Had a culture done and came back as possibly psudemonous (how ever you spell it) In the mean time some of the other females came up sick and then a few males that were purchased somewhere else were getting sick. They have been breeding some of the now sick females. After the second one died we had a pathologest look at tissue samples and he thinks it is paramyxovirus. Wants fresh tissue samples to confirm. We have been treating with baytrel and amikacen. Not sure where to go from here.

Marty

The pseudomonas bacteria could be an opportunistic infection brought on by an immune system compromised by another health issue.

Pseudomonas and bacterial lung infections are relatively common in snakes afflicted with OPMV.

However that's only a potential indicator. Pseudomonas are also seen in secondary infections associated with IBD, crypto, septicemia, scale rot, stomatitis and even with non-pathogen related stress issues (shipping, dehydration, mites, poor conditions).

In other words - the presence of pseudomonas bacteria can be expected in many illness scenarios.

Best of luck.