SILVA, N. S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2746571612038747; SILVA, Natanael de Souza.
Resumen:
Two studies to evaluate the homeopathic treatment for contagious agalactia , and to report
three cases of congenital infection by Mycoplasma agalactiae in goat kids were carried out.
For the homeopathic treatment, 30 goats were divided into three groups in a random and
homogenous way, being respectively, treated with biotherapeutics (group I), with alopathy
(group II) and controle (group III). All the animals were observed daily for a period of 365
days for the monitoring of the clinical evolution and the collections of material for the
bacteriological cultivation were carried out at intervals of 90 days. The homeopathic treatment
presented better results in comparison to to the allopathic treatment. Miscarriages were
observed in groups I and II with 12,5% and 28% of births, respectively. Only in seven
samples of the first collection M. agalactiae was isolated. In the goat kids which presented
congenital infection was observed swelling of the carpic articulations in three goat kids, in the
the tarsic articulation in one, and in the thigh-femoral articulation in another, with pain and
compromised flexion-extension movements. Samples were collected for the cultivation and it
was possible to isolate colonies with the “fried egg” appearance which were confirmed as
being M.agalactiae by biochemical tests and PCR. Blood was collected from three animals
soon after birth and submitted to the indirect-ELISA test for the determination of the titration
of the anti-M. agalactiae antibodies. It is concluded that the homeopathic treatment for
contagious agalactia is efficient in the control of the clinical signs in naturally infected
animals and that nanny-goats infected by M. agalactiae may generate infected, with clinical
signs and immunotolerant animals.
