Lavado broncoalveolar e cultura de microrganismos presentes em um cão com broncopneumonia - relato de caso.

Abstract

Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia are severe infectious diseases that can affect dogs; They are caused by infectious agents, viral, fungal and neoplastic. Although the diagnosis is fast, there is no specific protocol for treatment of the disease. Bronchoalveolar lavage is an effective method to be performed the assessment and identification of the microorganisms responsible for respiratory disease, and clinical importance in the evaluation of the pathology front of causative agents, as well as the evaluation of the aggravation of the condition due to the presence of other co-morbidities. The work considers the case of a dog story research mongrel with four-year-old diagnosed with bronchopneumonia, Transmissible Venereal Tumor (TVT) and Ehrlichiosis. In pathology identification was made chest radiograph to evaluate the structural patterns, blood counts and biochemical tests for investigation, with analysis of the causative agent through bronchoalveolar lavage, and subsequent identification of the infectious agent to perform antibiotic susceptibility; cytological test was conducted to identify the TVT and rapid test for ehrlichiosis and distemper. The clinical signs and thoracic radiology confirmed the diagnosis of bronchopneumonia. In the culture of the sample of bronchoalveolar lavage was identified Staphylococcus aureus and Actinebacteryum, both resistant to ampicillin. So it was recommended amoxicillin administration with clavulanate, 22 mg / kg orally twice daily for fourteen days, with completion of the infection. Cytology of the nasal plane bulk material proved the existence of TVT. For this was done three sections of vincristine with a resolution of the frame. In the culture of the analysis of pyogenic material nasal plane was observed Corinebacteria sp. This work establishes important information to