Midog test

[Joe Henderson]

Is it worth it ? Can’t find much about it besides their website

 

[Pixiebeak]

I don't know what that is , sorry.

How's your bird doing?

Edit: ok looked it up.
I had DNA test of my urine, it's the same sort of thing . Because I had an infection that couldn't be cultured. As in I had symptoms of infection but culture came back negative. This DNA identification of ba teria was very helpful for me in myself, as it was a nasty anaerobic bacteria. Those only culture under special culture. But still most wont grow. So thankful for this test , and was able to get proper antibiotics and recover after months of being sick.

I don't have experience in the veterinary settings. This is relatively new stuff

 

[Shezbug]

Is it worth it ? Can’t find much about it besides their website

Never heard of it... Can you explain what this is please?

 

[Pixiebeak]

Never heard of it... Can you explain what this is please?

DNA identification of organisms present in sample , especially helpful for fastidious organizims that are difficult, ir can't be cultured. If they are known pathogens with known sensitivity, then finding any they can be treated for .
It depends on veterinarian settings, if it how many have DNA profiles. Tho many are shared across species.

 

[Pixiebeak]

It is very expensive. Mine was $1000, for human test, not always covered by health insurance here. Mine was, because I'd had multiple negative regular culture , plus high wbc , Hugh # of wbc in urine. Sharing for all the women here , especially as we age kidney infections can be a lot more hidden. So this is a great test fir us if needed

But for you, have you had WBC run on your bird? Other tests? Symptoms consistent with bacterial kidney ( birds shed both urine and stool together, as most everyone knows already) or gastric intestinal?

 

[Jesse_EG]

Our vet just ran one. I’ll follow up with our results later this week to let you know more about it.