Hi dr O
I have a mare who recently did a cellulitis. Treatment was successful, however she kept a low grade fever even after treatment. We did a SAA test and she was at 430. Se also did a complete chemistry which didn’t point out any relevant information as to site of infection.
48h later she had no more fever and was clinically significantly better (back to normal), the vet re-tested the SAA which was expected to be lower, however it came back at 2240.
So we started another antibiotic this morning.
I read some articles that suggest such a high value could be bacterial infection rather than viral? How can we interpret results of SAA shan’t there is no other indication of disease?