Estudo retrospectivo de Babesiose em eq?inos de uso militar com avalia??o de casos cl?nicos e da bioqu?mica s?rica

• Autor(a) principal: Mesquita Neto, Francisco Duque de
• Data de Publicação: 2003
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRRJ
• Texto Completo: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/tede/829
• topic: babesiose; cl?nica m?dica; veterin?ria militar; babesiosis; clinical medicine; military veterinary; Medicina Veterin?ria

This work was carried out at Cavalry School Regiment of Brazilian Army to analyze clinical occurrence of babesiosis caused by Babesia equi. There were been used half-breed horses with average age of 11 years old, apparently healthy. These horses received handling standard of Military Unit. Biochemistry methods were used to determinate plasmatic proteins, bilirubins, alkaline phosphatase and lactate dehydrogenase and these tests were correlated with occurrence of B. equi at optical microscopy, horse s age and handling, and antibodies against B. equi using indirect immunofluorescence reaction. It s can be concluded that positive serology to babesiosis didn t affected significantly horses body score. Horses handling and lesser laboratorial tests favors Babesiosis by B. equi. Prevalence of B. equi detected by indirect Immunofluorescence Reaction was 90,24%, similar to others works conducted at Rio de Janeiro State, and can be considered an endemic disease. Horses were on a stable enzootic situation and so B. equi can be observed at optical microscopy relatively higher on stabled horses, because they were under stressing conditions, always exposed to return to disease. Plasmatic levels of alkaline phosphatase confirm clinically that horses presented osteopathies and occurrence of hyperglobulinemia and direct bilirrubinemia indicated hepatic damage in horses.