Miscellaneous Bacterial Infections

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A wide variety of other bacteria can cause illness in pet mice

and rats.  Your veterinarian is best equipped to diagnose and

prescribe medications for these diseases.



Wounds (from fighting and other forms of trauma) are commonly

infected with bacteria that already exist within the living

quarters.  Abscesses commonly result from wounds when they have

gone unnoticed and untreated.  Successful treatment of certain

wounds (especially long and deep cuts) and abscesses requires

veterinary intervention.  Abscesses usually must be surgically

opened because the relatively solid nature of rodent pus

precludes lancing and draining them.