Ocorrência de babesiose canina no Hospital Veterinário da UFCG - Campus Patos - PB - no período de 2006 a 2010 - aspectos clínicos e laboratoriais.

Abstract

Occurrence of canine babesiosis at the Veterinary Hospital of UFCG - Campus Patos - PB - from 2006 to 2010 - clinical and laboratory aspects. Canine Babesiosis is a hemoparasite caused by intra-erythrocytic protozoan Babesia spp., transmitted by the tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus, which affects all domestic animals and even people. This study aimed to identify the main factors that predispose the occurrence of this disease, more frequent symptoms, and especially to evaluate the frequency of positive cases from routine clinical Veterinary Hospital from January 2006 to December 2010. In the period the study covers 8369 consultations were performed in dogs in HV / UFCG, and of these 4475 had suspected for some hemoparasitoses, having an index of 792 (17,7%) animals positive for Babesia spp., found associations with other hemoparasitoses. The main breeds found in te study were poodle (13,30%) pinscher (8,08%) and Pitbull (5,30%), and the highest rate of positivity was found in mixed breed animals -SRD (50,63%). The frequency of infection by age was higher in dogs aged 12 months (55,93%), followed by the bands between one and five years (25,63%) and above five years (11,36%). The main hematological and biochemical changes were anemia (34%), thrombocytopenia (75%) and eosinopenia (36%), followed by lymphopenia (23,4%), neutrophilia (18,22%), leukocytosis (10%) and monocytopenia (5,3%), hipoalbunemia (0,4%) and hiperglobinemia (0,5%). Among the clinical signs found Anorexia / Appetite loss (31,1%), Apathy (68,5%), weight loss (24,5%), diarrhea, dark (50,78%), vomiting (60%), ascites (5,6%), splenomegaly (2,3%) and renal and abdominal tenderness (34%). This can be concluded that babesiosis is endemic among the canine population of the young HV / UFCG, feels a need to adopt other techniques for more accurate diagnoses and to control the vector that transmits the disease.