Estudo retrospectivo das endo e ectoparasitoses de cães atendidos no Hospital Veterinário da UFCG, no período de fevereiro de 2010 à dezembro de 2014.

Abstract

Retrospective study of endo and ectoparasites main of dogs seen at veterinary hospital UFCG, from February 2010 to December 2014. A retrospective case series study of the endo and ectoparasites of dogs seen at the clinical pathology industry veterinary hospital UFCG the Patos Campus - PB was carried out considering the records obtained from January 2010 to December 2014. The results of examinations were extracted the data concerning race, gender and age of the animals, which were related to the parasitic diagnostics, in order to identify the prevalence of these diseases in HV, and compare them with those described in the literature. The variables were separated according to race in SRD and CRD, sex in males and females and age was divided into animals less than one year, one to five years and over five years. During the study period were attended 9,868 dogs, these 9.2% (909) were diagnosed positive for some kind of parasite. The endoparasite most frequent was the Babesia gender with 36.9% (335) mainly affects dogs under one year old. Then the Ancylostoma gender with 10.1% (92) mainly in animals mongrel males and less than a year old. And of ectoparasites, the Demodex genus occurred in 12.5% (114) of treated dogs, mainly in animal breed. Thus, we found a higher prevalence (%) in young animals under one year of age for both endo as ectoparasites, mostando that these animals need more attention regarding parasitic diseases.