Raiva em equino - relato de caso

Abstract

Rabies is a zoonosis, cosmopolitan, high mortality that can affect all homeothermic beings. It is classified within the family Rhabdoviridae and genero Lyssavirus, being one of the most important zoonoses for public health. Its transmission is primarily due to the biting having as main transmitters the hematophagous bat Desmodus rotundos and the domestic canid. After inoculation of the agent, the virus migrates to the nervous system in which it will cause the lesions and their clinical manifestations. In horses, the most common symptomatology is paralysily form, however cases of furious form are reported. An equine with a history of retention of urinary and alteration of the locomotor system, without vaccination and that lived loose in picket was treated at the University Hospital of Veterinary Medicine of the Federal University of Reconcavus of Bahia (HUMV-UFRB). After the physical examination at the time of hospitalization, neurological alterations of brain and spinal cord order were observed, and the suspicion of rabies was raised. On the night of the same day, the animal died. The clinical and pathological findings were suggestive for rabies and the brain material was forwarded to the Central Laboratory of Public Health (LACEN), in which it was negative for immunofluorescence technique and positive in the biological test by the intracerebral inoculation technique in camundongos, thus closing the diagnosis to rabies. Knowledge of the pathogen associated with epidemiology and clinical evolution were suggestible for rabies, entretan-to, due to the great importance for public health, the diagnosis can only be closed after analysis of the central nervous system by accredited laboratories. The importance of care when handling an animal with neurologica symptomatology is highlighted, since clinical signs are not always suggestive and it is a zoonosis of high mortality.