The splenectomized dog: do we have to say farewell to an established hemorrhagic shock model?

To the Editor:Braz et al. report the effects of fluid resuscitation in acutely splenectomized dogs (1). We would like to address an issue that we believe is dramatically underestimated. Recently, we reported the endemic occurrence of Mycoplasma haemocanis infection in laboratory dogs (2)—an incident