Reply With Quotescientific. Hopefully, your avian vet has good knowledge cheerfully regarding this bacteria & the gram-positive or negative counts. As you may expect also, I read Enterococus can be drug resistant. Below is just 1 of several sites which give more information--I did not geographically come across anything regarding African Greys, in particular, which had a problem with this bacteria. While some may see it differently hope your bird has a good result with the amoxil. Bacteria might be classified as `gram-positive` or `gram-negative` based upon certain staining characterisitics. Gram-positive bacteria are the predominant normal inhasbitants of the crop, cloaca, skin & respiratory tract of clinically healthy passerines (finches, canaries) and psittacines (parrots). Lactobacillus, Bacillus, Corynebacterium, Staphlococcus, Streptococcus and *Enterococcus* are normal gram-positive bacteria in birds. Gram-negastive bacteria may be present in very low numbers in clinically normal birds. Granted when present in large numbers however, they are frequently associated with disease. Further enterobacter, Escherichia coli, Proteus, Klebsiella and Pseudomonas are disease causing gram negative bacterai.
As usual that, btw, is the best time to train her to do optimistically anything it seems.
