Piroplasmose em equinos: relato de caso

Abstract

Amongst the diseases who go for equine highlight the parasitic diseases, piroplasmosis is one of of the most important diseases more parasitic of horses. Hemoparasitosis is about one caused by parasitizes intra-erythrocytic of the family Babesia caballi and Theileria equi transmitted for its main vectors, ticks of the species Dermacentor nitens, Amblyomma sculptum and Rhipicephalus microplus. It is a disease defined for high pathogenicity, which attends a course with clinical pictures characterized by acute form, subacute and chronic, where the animals become carrying and act as reservoirs, spreading the agent in you plant them and making with that this disease spreads in the flocks, being considered endemic in diverse regions of the country. In this way it is highlighted having great economic impact, either in direct way due to damages related to the significant fall of performance, cost of treatment and until the death of the animal, as indirectly, having you mainly thwart in the movement and marketing of these equines in exports. Thus, this work had objective to accomplish one brief revision of literature concerning the main aspects epidemiologists and equine physicians of the Piroplasmosis and to tell to a case taken care of for the Sector of Clinic and Surgery of Great Animals of the HUMV/UFRB, evaluating the effectiveness of the used treatment.