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Year 2013 - Volume 33, Number 1
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Sheep diseases diagnosed at the Laboratory of Animal Pathology, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil (1996-2010), 33(1):21-29
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ABSTRACT.- Almeida T.L., Brum K.B., Lemos R.A.A., Leal C.R.B. & Borges F.A. 2013. [Sheep diseases diagnosed at the Laboratory of Animal Pathology, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil (1996-2010).] Doenças de ovinos diagnosticadas no Laboratório de Anatomia Patológica Animal da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (1996-2010). Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 33(1):21-29. Departamento de Medicina Veterinária, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Av. Senador Filinto Müller 2443, Vila Ipiranga, Cx. Postal 549, Campo Grande, MS 79070-900, Brazil. E-mail: thiagoalmeida2@hotmail.com
Sheep farming has increased significantly in Brazil during the last decades. Concurrently, research groups and diagnostic laboratories compile data and perform retrospective studies to provide important insight for professionals. A prevalence study from January 1996 to December 2010 was carried out in the archives of Laboratório de Anatomia Patológica Animal (LAP), Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). Laboratório de Bacteriologia, UFMS, and Setor de Patologia Veterinária at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul helped on the diagnostic of pulmonary mannheimiosis and scrapie respectively. The reports for sheep were reviewed and grouped into conclusive and inconclusive ones. The conclusive cases were classified according to the etiology of the disease. In the period, 331 exams (3.97%) were done. Sixty-four experimental cases and materials from other states or countries (19.3%) were excluded. Remaining cases (267), eighty-seven (32.6%) were inconclusive and 180 (67.4%) were considered conclusive reports, were classified according to the etiology: 60 (33.3%) infectious and parasitary diseases; 45 (25%) were poisonings and toxi-infections; 41 (22.8%) were summarized as “injuries without apparent cause”; 22 (12.2%) cases of metabolic and nutritional diseases; 10 (5.6%) were classified as “other disorders” and 2 (1.1%) case of neoplasms. Haemonchosis, fibrinonecrotic or fibrinopurulent pleuropneumonia, bronchopneumonia and pneumonia, poisonings by Brachiaria spp. and copper poisoning were the most prevalent diseases in sheep. Two cases of scrapie have been diagnosed in this period. |
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