Levantamento soroepidemiológico da anemia infecciosa eqüina (aie) em asininos e muares no município de Araci – Ba

Abstract

The production of horses grows over the years in Brazil, performing an opposite path of creating asses and mules that showed a drop in their 2011 production figures for 2012 and there is no evaluation since 2013. As a result there is a lack of population control, which facilitates the spread of diseases, for example, the Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA). Caused by a lentivirus the IEA is treated as one of the major infectious diseases equideocultura. There is no successful treatment report to the IEA, and were not efficient protocols vaccination developed, the legislation recommends euthanasia of positive animals. From the presented context, the present work to study sero-epidemiological situation of Equine Infectious Anemia in donkeys and mules in the municipality of Araci BA. 2997 horses and 893 mules were identified in the city, the estimate for research is based on the prevalence of the disease in the state which is 4% (ROSA et. Al., 2012), determining a total of 173 samples to be collected. Visits were made and the application of epidemiological survey in the 96 properties in the municipality of Araci, in the state of Bahia. Serum samples were submitted to immunodiffusion test in agarose gel (AGID), in the laboratory of infectious diseases (ILD) of the university hospital of veterinary medicine at the Federal University of Bahia Reconcavo. Of the 173 samples tested, all amos¬tras the test were negative. However, it highlights the risk factors identified in the survey, in which 95% of the collected animals live free pasture, which leads to greater ease of contamination. Other identified risk factors were, the collective use of syringes and needles of approximately 27%, the failure to carry out examination of the animals to control or transport and 95% of animals collected. The results of this study show that despite not detect seropositive animals, the risk factors for spread of the IEA are present in that region.