Staphylococcus pseudintermedius

it was found in my dog's poo a long time ago. her early tests reflect many characteristics of this. i understand that it can be contagious. my main concern now, welll yes, is to hope my dog's future pain can be reduced, is that she cannot infect others. it was found in one poo. nothing was said about it. she has had hair follicle abnormalities and pretty much all symptoms one finds in articles about it. I understand that she is likely resistant. i am just hoping to learn what happens in other countries. i obviously hope not isolation, but i care about other dogs just as much as i care about her. can anyone share knowledge? i have written and likely alienated experts. i would love to learn from vets with experience. thank you

sorry, i mean resistant to meds. i mean. if you read this, she is a poster girl. she is a poster girl of aliens too. just hope to not keep googling and local vets are not a resource for me sadly.

Hello and thank you for this fascinating question, although I'm afraid that for me, it raises more follow-up questions than I can give answers.  Staphylococcus Pseudintermedius is a ubiquitous (found all over the place) commensal (can live there quite happily without causing problems) bacterium of the skin and mucosae in cats and dogs.  This is from an open-access paper in the EFSA journal (February 2022) by Nielsen, Bicout, Drew and a long list of others.  I therefore suspect that it might not be unusual to find it in the faeces (a lovely breeding-ground for bacteria) and it seems perfectly likely that a one-off finding some years ago is independent of any problems that your dog is currently experiencing.  Yes, this bacterium can indeed be resistant to many antibiotics, but the first question has to be, what is causing your dogs' problems?  Folliculitis can involve bacteria, but its onset is more complicated than that - after all, skin is exposed to bacteria 100% of the time, but only occasionally gets 'infected.'  Frequently, 'infection' co-incides with a different causative factor for example parasitic infection (e.g. demodex), fungal disease, allergy or hormonal changes.  To get to the bottom of this case, I wonder whether your vet can rule these potential causes out at this time?

i wrote a very long response that i worry will be perceived in ways that won't benefit my dog, I don't know how to respond. to anything. Because i don't understand anything.  her documented past exists only in tests that no vet has ever looked at. I don't want to mention anything that could be perceived as critical which leaves me with very little to say, im so sorry but I don't want to offend you based on what i say about others, and don't feel that I can explain the extent to which cultural differences exist in a way that could ever explain some of the things that have happened.  I don't know why ovules meant for a woman's vagina were put in hers. I don't know what the follicle tests means that was done, the day before they were put in her vagina for seven days. or the pee test on that day. or the ultrasound that was done the day they were inserted but misdated on the report as having occurred a month before (the images show the same day as they were inserted).  I feel pretty confident that no study has found that staph in a poo sample based on interactions with some authors today. I don't know what it means that it was found in her poo, or what the other thing in her poo that day meant, cause it wasn't there five days before and she was isolated in that time.  and that other thing had the antibiotic sensitivity test done. i am now taking you from july 26/27 2021 to October 13 2021. If she is the first to have it in her poo, i dont know what that means, and i only care if what it means, or the other thing that day, or the clostridium 3+ a few months later or the proteus in her ear that came back sensitive only to neomycin - if all of that means she is resistant to antibiotics on every level i dont even care. i only care about finding what could = me finding  a pain pill that could reduce future pain if she is ever in it. i don't want pain. ive been told that her PAH/toxicity + drug hypersensitivity + immune disease (yep, vague, i know) = her today and that her today was revealed in the tests from that long ago time.  what i am trying to say is that her future depends on my ability to figure out, from her past that no one has but me,  in 20,000 pics (i mean other than over 50 tests with no mention of symptoms or drugs as there are no medical records) IF there is something that could reduce pain. that is all i care about at this point- that if /when she is next in so much pain or has some emergency symptom that = i have to take her to a vet, that maybe i can ask for that med. to reduce pain. i am writing this as there is some bizarre weather phenomenon happening called a zonda that impacts those with bad hearts. and i have 7 different echos for her that could not be more different and why i am writing this is because what i was told just about the 7th cause i can't find anyone to read all seven. im sorry. and my friend is taking her to the park so i can try to google things i dont understand trying to figure out if there may be a pain med out there to help her. i don't know how to answer any question and im sorry as i am sure that is super annoying. i can show you a test with that staph in her poo... cause i think it has not been found in a poo, but i dont know what that even means if she is the first. i can tell you about some of her false positive or negatives. i can show you her first ever test that had more follicle action than the one on the day before she put those ovules up my dog's lady bits, or the sensitivity test for proteus in her ear that only showed the neomycin. there are more crazy tests than you can imagine and sadly i dont have anyone to tell me what matters if my goal is only to find a pain pill when i think it's probably not possible. i can show you both trichograms. i can show you anything- but i am so grateful for you and so afraid of misusing your time because you can't imagine what my dog's past has in it and I don't know what is important. Is there any chance you may know what could be important within my goal of trying to find out if something could exist that could reduce her pain when 4093949 drugs have been injected into her or prescribed, her 7 echos are so so different, 9 ultrasounds too, and i can't even count her diagnoses or other tests but I feel that no vet ever intentionally caused her harm, and i hope that nothing I have said has offended you. if the goal is trying to figure out what meds may reduce pain, do you have any suggestions? im happy to post any test. i just worry about causing you nightmares.

sorry- that was extra word barfy- I am unaware of what part of her past I should be trying to extract that may possibly lead to future pain reduction.  I should have made this goal clear in my first and in every post.  I understand that many animals' clinical 'today' may be a 'today' only situation.  My dog is not one of those animals.  No current symptom is new, no recent test has been normal/explained, and my primary concern, currently, is based on my being told her her past defines her present and future- in other words hat her 'today' is a consequence of the past - it's a cycle a would like to break in any possible, that depends, minimally on avoiding drugs that have caused her adverse effects. Unfortunately, it will not be possible to create any type past drug history  for several reasons and what I can create I can't imagine could be remotely helpful for many reasons.  Test methods and diagnostic approaches to current / past symptoms are not available/ideal. My dog's pre-me several day exposure/ingestion of used petrol has recently been identified as a something relevant in ways not previously verbalized or even indirectly suggested in the past.  Adverse drug reactions that seem so obvious now, were not considered or explored at key times- not long ago, I was told, by a vet, that my dog's symptom history reflects some type of combination of those factors plus an unspecified immune disease/disorder.   It is my current understanding that diagnoses are no longer relevant, due to her inability to receive medication and the implied damaged state of her body. I have zero clarity on her most recent echo or the six that preceded it, nor do I have any clarity on other recent imaging as it has not been offered in ways I find puzzling. Her most recent blood/urines were neither recent nor normal, but I am most concerned by what will happen when I next have to take her to a vet, due to what I was told. The past is not a focus nor is it documented nor would it be digestible by any human if medical records existed.  As there are no medical records and due to the # of tests (all that exist), I have to try to guess at what part of a terrible past could possibly be relevant to my goal of pain avoidance.  I don't believe that her current symptoms are as important as my goal, and am aware that her symptoms are not explorable/addressable in our specific situation. Because of all of the above, I feel quite stressed at a task I know is impossible (creating anything drug related that could be helpful from her past), but I also feel unable to give up on my dog as she is young, loves to play, and so I often ask random and disjointed questions based  on snippets of a past that didn't make sense / weren't mentioned in case any of it could be relevant to my hope  and goal of avoiding pain. I think this response is quite vague, but hopefully expresses where I am at, which is one that requires me to extract meaning from a past without documentation or knowledge. I am unsure if anything can be done about her future but committed to trying to do whatever posssible to make it less crappy than her past- any test or specific information I could share, i would be thrilled to, but I know that your time is precious and others have situations that are much more clear and typical. sorry. thanks