Estudo microbiol?gico e citol?gico do trato genital de gatas dom?sticas

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Juliana Braga de
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRRJ
• Texto Completo: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/tede/859
• topic: gatas; microbiota vaginal; citologia vaginal; cats; vaginal microbiota; vaginal cytology; Microbiologia

In this study vaginal material was collected for microbiological and cytological evaluation in 39 female domestic cats, divided into two groups. The first group consisted of 21 whole animals, and the second of 18 neutered cats. All animals were apparently healthy, with ages varying from six months to 12 years, and were of different breeds; they came from domestic and county breeding centers in Rio de Janeiro. After mechanical containment, and cleansing of vulvar area, the proceeding for the microbiological isolation begun, for this two sterile pedriatic swabs previously embedded in a 0,9% saline solution were necessary. The first swab was used for bacterial isolation and preserved in Nutrient Agar transportation medium. The second swab was used for the fungal isolation and transported in Peptonated Water 1%. Afterwards, the material of both collections was refrigerated and sent to analysis. After this, the collection for cytological analysis was performed using a small interdental brush. The smears were fixated in absolute alcohol and dyed by the quick dyeing method (Diff Quick ?). In both groups studied differences were observed as to the number and species of bacteria. The first group had a higher frequency of Edwardsiella tarda (19,04%), followed by Enterobacter spp and Streptococcus spp, both with 17 isolations (16,19%). In relation to the neutered animals of the second group there was a higher predominance of Enterobacter spp (16,88%) and of Escherichia coli and of aeroginous Pseudomonas in the same proportion ( 14,28%). In the fungal isolation and identification it was also possible to observe differences related to the isolated ones in relation to the groups. In the first group there were 30,5% of Candida spp followed by Aspergillus spp (18,64%) and Curvularia spp (11,86%). Whereas in the second group, with castrated animals, there was a higher frequency of Penicillium spp (25%), Cladosporium (18,75%) and Candida spp (16,66%). As to the association between the microbiological and colpocytological exams it was observed that there was an agreement between the two auxiliary methods of diagnostic of vaginal microbiota of female cats only in the bacterial isolation, but not in the fungal isolation.