>I thought Kanamycin was an injectable antibiotic so I will have to check up
>on that. Any treatment that gives us some chance to overcome this nasty
>disease has to be welcome.
I'm glad that I could finally contribute something interesting to the list :)
Regarding the mycobacterium becoming 'airborne' I don't think this is true
because otherwise losses and the number of infected humans would be
substantially bigger?
Would it be a good idea to make a page somewhere where people can report their
experiences with mycobacteriosis to? In some time we will be able to compare
the cases from (hopefully) all over the world and we will know more about this
disease and thus closer to a cure. The internet is an excellent medium for
this, and I doubt if mycobacteriosis is already researched in this way?
Below is another little article I found on www.guppies.com. Note their
observations on spreading.
Tuberculosis [www.guppies.com/pages/diseases.shtml]
This disease kills more fishes than is realized because the effects are
generally slow and fishes do not waste as do birds and mammals; they stay
plump until they die. The germ, called mycobacterium piscium, has been found
in many parts of guppies, even in the eyes. You are not likely to know if
your guppies have the disease even when you find them dead. A bacteriologist
can make the determination for you. Despite the fact that we keep so many
guppies in such small places, tuberculosis does not seem to spread among all
the inhabitants. If it does, it is quite rare.
Best regards,
Hugo Hoekstra