Levantamento da leptospirose nos cães atendidos no Hospital Universitário de Medicina Veterinária - UFRB no período de 2 meses

Abstract

Investigate the occurrence of leptospirosis in dogs treated at the routine of HUMV- UFRB during a period of two months, regardless of the reason for the consultation, gender or age. Forty-four models of dog blood sera were examined and the diagnosis of leptospirosis was performed by the indirect ELISA technique, using as antigen a pool of 23 serovars of Leptospira spp. The prevalence found was 43%. In order to identify individual variables and environments, most frequently from seropositive dogs for leptospira, an epidemiological questionnaire was applied to verify variables that may be using infection. An analysis of the variables pointed as a risk factor for canine leptospirosis or sex (P = value = 0.0316), being a higher positivity in male dogs. Other variables studied such as age, race, contact with other animals, access to the street, presence of rats, exposure to favorable environmental factors, habit of moving the garbage and whether or not food is collected or different is no different from the difference. Dogs with positive serology draw a clinical chart looking for clinical signs and results of complementary tests conducted with an animal infected with leptospirosis, and these alterations are altered, but not pathognomonic.