Aspectos epidemiológicos e laboratoriais de babesiose canina no Hospital Veterinário da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Patos - PB, no período de 2012 a 2015.

Abstract

Epidemiological and laboratory aspects of canine babesiosis at the Veterinary Hospital of the Federal University of Campina Grande, Patos - PB, from 2012 to 2015. The Babesia ssp is an ubiquitous obligate intracellular microorganism that affects blood cells and is transmitted by the bite of blood-sucking arthropods. The disease has hemolytic characteristic, resulting in anemia and various hematological changes. Usually infections are responsible for nonspecific clinical manifestations which results in higher morbidity and mortality rate in canines. Due to the limitations that routine diagnostic methods have to detect active infections, the main purpose of this study was to determine the epidemiological and laboratory aspects of dogs in the city of Patos/PB with babesiose diagnosed by blood smear between 2012 and 2015. During this period, 73 dogs were tested positive with babesia spp at the HV/UFCG. It can be seen that 53.4 % of the animals were female and there was a predominance of animals aged less than 01 year (63%). Anemia was observed in 83.4 % (61/73), the most common being normochromic normocytic, with association of thrombocytopenia boards (78.1 %), leukopenia (31/71), neutropenia (23/71), lymphopenia (27/71), eosinopenia (50/71) and monocytopenia (16/71). There was no significant change in the biochemical analysis. In conclusion, it is possible to note that young dogs need more care and efficient control of the disease vector, given the fact that babesiose is endemic among the animals treated at the Veterinary Hospital of the city of Patos/PB. Furthermore it was found the need to adopt other techniques for more accurate diagnoses so that the correct treatment is instituted more safely and quickly.