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I cannot express how completely relieved I am to see this! I am also glad that it sounds like you have your regular vet in your corner. Do you think your reg vet will continue with the treatment that you have been giving? This may take months, and like mine, may have to be on doxy for a very very long time....
Antibiotics have a great potential to affect antibody tests, and I suspect PCR tests to some degree. While PCR tests, if positive, are definitive, negatives aren't. I keep hearing though that antibodies take a long time to decrease, so if they have the right test, it's possible you could get a positive. If they don't test for the right organism, then back to square one.
I know that the full Bartonella testing at NCSU is expensive. They told me that antibiotics like amoxi and doxy will keep the organism in check (and may skew the test results), but they can't eliminate it. They use azithromycin, the same abx that dropped Max's platelets.
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