Tratamentos homeopático e alopático para agalaxia contagiosa e relato de casos de infecção congênita por Mycoplasma agalactiae em cabritos.

Abstract

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.