Principais doenças de pele em equinos atendidos no Hospital Veterinário da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande.

Abstract

The objective of this work was to make a retrospective study on major skin diseases that attacked horses,on Veterinary Hospital Health Center and Rural Technology, Federal University of Campina Grande, Patos-PB between the years 2002 until 2012. The research was performed by monitoring the routine functioning of the said Hospital, In the care of animals arriving in motivated by cutaneous involvement and through data checks on medical records. Was verified 1,763 chips horses of which 157 horses were treated for skin diseases, which corresponds to (8.90%) of animals of which (54.1%) with Pythiosis, with habronemiasis (21.6%), with sarcoid (15.2%), with carcinoma (3.18%) and photosensitization with (2.54%). Thus, it is concluded that there is a series of skin ailments in horses wherein the therapeutic protocols used in the HV / UFCG are effective.