Incidência de leptospirose em cães no município de São José dos Pinhais, Paraná

• Autor(a) principal: Holtman, Cristiane Maria
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Finder, Fernanda Mota
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório do Centro Universitário Braz Cubas
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/handle/123456789/3279
• topic: Espécie canina; Leptospira spp; Ocorrência; Região; Sorovares; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::MEDICINA VETERINARIA

Canine leptospirosis caused by the bacterium Leptospira spp, is an extremely important disease in public health, characterized as an easily contagious zoonosis, high morbidity, frequent in areas of poor sanitation associated with periods of rain. The bacterium has several serovars preferential to a particular animal species and region. The objective of this study is to evaluate the incidence of Leptospirosis in São José dos Pinhais-PR (SJP), as well to demonstrate which serovars are more frequent in dogs, evaluating infected animals according to age, gender, and region of origin. Fifty-two reports of leptospirosis-positive dogs from the SJP-PR veterinary laboratory from 2015 to 2019 were analyzed. The most common serovars in the municipality of SJP-PR were Copenhageni with 52.94%, Icterohaemohrragiae with 36.47%, and Canicola. with 9.41%, being more affected male dogs up to 2 years old and females from 5 years old. It was also found that peripheral regions were more affected by the infection compared with the central area, most dogs of undefined breed. It can be concluded that peripheral areas of the municipality have a higher incidence of leptospirosis in male dogs up to 2 years old and females over 5 years old and that the most common serovars responsible for the infection are Copenhageni, Icterohaemohrragiae and Canicola. This may reflect poor sanitation and vaccine composition.