Achados clínicos, laboratoriais e anatomopatológicos de casos sugestivos de leptospirose canina atendidos no Hospital Veterinário Universitário da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande: 2008 - 2018.

Abstract

Leptospirosis is an infectious disease of a zoonotic nature and worldwide distribution, being of great relevance for animal health and public health. In this way, the main clinical, laboratory and pathological findings of cases suggestive of canine leptospirosis attended at the University Veterinary Hospital of the Federal University of Campina Grande - Campus Patos, from 2008 to 2018 were analyzed. cases through clinical, epidemiological, laboratory and anatomopathological data of the dogs, considering alterations in renal and hepatic biochemistry, compatible clinical signs and necroscopic findings, obtained from the records of the animals. Animals of both sexes and age ranged from two months to nine years, predominating a non - defined pattern. Clinical signs included mucous membrane jaundice, anorexia, dehydration, prostration, hematuria, diarrhea and necrosis of the extremities of the tongue. Among the necropsy findings it was possible to show jaundice, accentuation of the lobular pattern, yellowishcolored kidneys. Lymphoplasmocytic inflammatory infiltrate, intracytoplasmic bilestase, hepatocyte necrosis; in interstitial kidney nephritis, membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, nephrosis areas, among other symptoms. Leptospirosis is a disease present in the clinical routine of dogs, and its diagnosis can be made difficult by the wide variety of clinical signs, being important the use of complementary tests associated to the control and prevention in public health.