Doenças de equídeos no Semiárido Brasileiro.

Abstract

This thesis, entitled 'Diseases of equidae in Brazilian semiarid', was prepared in three chapters, concerning to three scientific articles. The first two articles are published in the journal Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, and the third article is awaiting response of reviewer in the same journal. The objective of this thesis is to promote the knowledge of diseases that affect equidae in the semiarid region of northeastern Brazil with in the scientific community and those persons involved with equidae. For this we did a retrospective study by collecting data, stored in the Veterinary Hospital of Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) between the years 2002 and 2012. The first chapter consists of the article entitled 'Skin diseases in equidae in the Brazilian semiarid', which results determined that the leading equidae skin diseases in the region are traumatic wounds, pythiosis, sarcoid and habronemiasis with different frequencies in the three species. The second chapter it is an article reporting diseases that affect donkeys and mules. In this article, entitled 'Diseases in donkeys and mules in the Brazilian semiarid', it was concluded that these two species are most affected by traumatic wounds, fractures and colic. In the third chapter entitled 'Diseases of horses in the Brazilian semiarid', describes the diseases that affect this species and the results show that arthritis, colic, tendinitis/tenosynovitis, pythiosis and traumatic wounds are the most common diseases.