Toxoplasmose felina (revisão de literatura).

Abstract

The objective of the literature review is to describe Toxoplasmosis in felines, evaluating the clinical characteristics, pathogenesis, identifying the risk factors related to disease in humans and ways of preventing it, and to describe the role of cats and their importance for the spread of infection . It is an infectious, parasitic disease that has the cat as a definitive host, releasing oocysts in feces that can contaminate humans through direct exposure to spores. It is a disease that has importance in public health, being able to infect the human being via transplacental and by the ingestion of raw or undercooked meat. Prevention is the most important form of disease control. Treatment in cats is performed with clindamycin hydrochloride (12.5 to 25 mg / kg, orally, every 12 hours for 28 days). The trimetropin sulfonamide combination (30 mg / kg, orally, every 12 hours, for 28 days).