FUNGAL OSTEOMYELITIS CAUSED BY Penicillium sp. AND Acremonium sp. IN A DOG

• Autor(a) principal: Mello, Sheila Santana de
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Vasconcelos, Lídia Maria Amaro, Milken, Vanessa Martins Fayad, Mota, Francisco Claudio Dantas, Medeiros-Ronchi, Alessandra Aparecida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Medicina Veterinária (Recife. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.journals.ufrpe.br/index.php/medicinaveterinaria/article/view/6176
• topic: canino; osteopatia; fungo; itraconazol; radiografia; Canine; Osteopathy; Fungus; Itraconazole; Radiography

Osteomyelitis is a severe systemic infectious disease characterized by destructive and progressive bone inflammation, which is usually bacterial in origin, and occasionally viral or fungal. The objective was to report the case of a dog with fungal osteomyelitis, detailing the diagnosis and treatment evolution. A male, crossbreed dog, four months old, was treated at the Veterinary Hospital of the Federal University of Uberlândia (HOVET-UFU), presenting hyperthermia, hyporexia, reactive lymph nodes, lameness and open wound in the right forelimb (RF), in addition to secretion purulent and exposed bone. The radiograph showed Salter Harris I fractures in the physeal cartilages of the right ulna and signs of aggressive polyostotic bone lesion in RF. Fungal and bacterial cultures isolated Enterococcus sp., Penicillium sp. and Acremonium sp. The diagnosis obtained was fungal osteomyelitis. Based on the antibiogram and antifungigram, the drugs amoxicillin with potassium clavulanate, omeprazole and itraconazole were used and the animal was radiographically monitored every 30 days. After 150 days, signs of bone remodeling in the joint and adjacent bones were more evident and the treatment was terminated. The dog presented 28 months free of relapses. It should be noted that the medical management of a wound should not be directed solely at healing, requiring radiography and, in cases of suspected osteomyelitis, tests to exclude differential diagnoses, as well as to choose the most suitable drug, effective in each case.