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O objetivo deste trabalho é descrever os principais aspectos epidemiológicos e clínico-patológicos das principais doenças do sistema nervoso de ruminantes e equinos diagnosticadas no Laboratório de Patologia Veterinária (LPV) da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) para servir como base para veterinários de campo ou que trabalham em laboratórios de diagnóstico. Esses dados foram buscados em trabalhos publicados pela equipe do LPV-UFSM ou retirados dos arquivos do laboratório. As principais doenças do sistema nervoso diagnosticadas em bovinos foram a raiva, a encefalopatia hepática decorrente de insuficiência hepática por ingestão de Senecio spp., a meningoencefalite por herpesvírus bovino, a babesiose cerebral, a intoxicação por Solanum fastigiatum, a febre catarral maligna e a polioencefalomalacia. Em ovinos foram diagnosticadas a cenurose, a meningoencefalite por Listeria monocytogenes, o tétano, os abscessos encefálicos ou vertebrais e a raiva. Meningoencefalite por L. monocytogenes foi a única doença do sistema nervoso descrita em caprinos. Equinos foram afetados pela leucoencefalomalacia, tripanossomíase e tétano.

Descreve-se um surto de intoxicação por organofosforado (ORF) em bovinos na mesorregião centro ocidental do Rio Grande do Sul. A água fornecida a 49 bovinos foi contaminada com ORF e carbamato (CM). Vinte bovinos morreram após quadro clínico de poucas horas. Foram observados os clássicos sinais clínicos de hiperestimulação do sistema parassimpático incluindo incoordenação motora, agressividade, sialorreia, tremores musculares e, em alguns casos, diarreia. Na necropsia e histopatologia não foram observadas alterações morfológicas significativas. ORF e CM foram detectados por cromatografia em camada delgada em amostras de tecido de dois bovinos afetados. Adicionalmente, uma amostra da água consumida pelos bovinos foi positiva para ORF e CM e outras duas foram positivas para ORF. Uma análise quantitativa realizada por cromatografia gasosa no conteúdo do abomaso de um bovino afetado, revelou 0,93µg/g de mancozebe (CM) e 0,07 µg/g de forato (ORF).

ABSTRACT.-Pierezan F., Oliveira Filho J.C., Carmo P.M., Aires A.R., Souza T.M., Two experiments were performed in order to determine the toxic effects of varying doses of aϐlatoxins in calves. Clinical, productive and pathologic aspects of affected calves were considered. In the ϐirst experiment, nine 2 to 4-month-old calves Holstein Friesian calves were fed, for two months, daily amounts corresponding to 1.5% of their body weight of a ration containing 500±100 ppb of aϐlatoxins. Three calves of similar age and weight were used as controls and, except for being a ration free of aϐlatoxins, were kept in the same condition as the treated calves. In the second experiment, three 4-5-month old Holstein Friesian calves, were orally fed daily small parcels of a concentrate of aϐlatoxins diluted in 500 ml of water corresponding to 1,250, 2,500 e 5,000 ppb of B1 aϐlatoxin (AFB1). A male 4-month-old Holstein Friesian calf was used as control. During all the experimental period of the ϐirst experiment, the weight gain of the calves receiving AFB1 was equivalent to that of the control group. In the ϐirst experiment no differences were observed between treated and control calves when the values of serum activity of aspartate transaminase (AST), serum albumin (SA), total serum protein (TP), and PVC, determined weekly, were compared. However there was a signiϐicant difference between treated and control groups in the serum activities of alkaline phosphatase (AP) and gamma glutamyl transferase when the serum sampled on the 63th day of the experiment was considered. During the whole experimental period and up to three weeks after the ϐinal of the experiment, no clinical signs or histopathological changes associated with the consumption of aϐlatoxins were observed in any of the calves of the ϐirst experiment. In the second experiment, clinical signs observed in three treated calves included loss of appetite, decrease in weight gain, and loss of weight. Jaundice, intermittent diarrhea, tenesmus and apathy were only observed in the calf receiving 5,000 ppb of AFB1. Due to these clinical signs the calf was euthanized. Increased activity of AF and GGT were observed in all the calves of the treated group during most part of the experimental period. A marked drop in the serum levels of SA was observed in the serum sampled on the 49º day of the experiment in the calf receiving the largest dose of aϐlatoxin. No changes were observed regarding PCV, TP, total bilirubin, direct bilirubin and in the serum activity of AST in any of the calves of the second experiment. Histopathological changes in intoxicated calves included bile duct proliferation, cytoplasmic vacuolar hepatocelular degeneration consistent with hepatocelular deposit of lipids, periportal to brid-

É descrito um surto de ceratoconjuntivite infecciosa bovina (CIB) e hemoncose intercorrente afetando um grupo de 116 bezerros de 1-2 anos de idade na região central do Rio Grande do Sul. Vinte bezerros foram afetados e nove morreram. Os sinais clínicos incluíam perda de peso, marcada palidez da mucosa oral, lacrimejamento, opacidade focal da córnea e avermelhamento da conjuntiva. Sinais mais avançados incluíam lacrimejamento copioso, opacidade da córnea, ceratocone, ceratomalacia e cegueira. O diagnóstico de CIB foi baseado nos achados epidemiológicos e clínico-patológicos e confirmado pela cultura de uma cepa hemolítica de Moraxella bovis dos olhos de dois terneiros afetados. O alto coeficiente de letalidade (45%) neste surto foi atribuído a grave hemoncose intercorrente.

Pesq. Vet. Bras. 32(5):383-390, maio 2012 383 RESUMO.-[Intoxicação experimental por Baccharis megapotamica var. weirii em búfalos.] As partes aéreas verdes de Baccharis megapotamica var. weirii foram administradas oralmente a cinco búfalos da raça Murrah de 6-8 meses de idade nas doses de 1, 3, 4, 5 e 10g/kg de peso corporal (pc) (~1-10mg de tricotecenos macrocíclicos/kg/ pc). A planta usada no experimento foi colhida numa fazenda onde um surto recente de intoxicação espontânea por essa planta havia ocorrido. Nos búfalos deste experimento, os sinais clínicos apareceram 4-20 horas e 4 búfalos morreram 18-49 horas após a ingestão da planta. Os sinais clíni-cos consistiram de apatia, anorexia, diarreia aquosa, febre, cólica, salivação, tremores musculares, inquietação, respiração laboriosa, atonia ruminal e desidratação. Five male 6-8 month-old Murrah buffalo calves were orally dosed with the fresh aerial parts of Baccharis megapotamica var. weirii at doses of 1, 3, 4, 5 and 10g/kg body weight (bw) (~1-10mg macrocyclic trichothecenes/kg/bw). The B. megapotamica used for the experiment was harvested on a farm where a recent spontaneous outbreak of poisoning caused by such plant had occurred. Clinical signs appeared 4-20 hours and 4 buffaloes died 18-49 hours after the ingestion of the plant. Clinical signs were apathy, anorexia, and watery diarrhea, fever, colic, drooling, muscle tremors, restlessness, laborious breathing and ruminal atony, and dehydration. The most consistent gross ϐindings were restricted to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract consisted of varying degrees of edema and reddening of the mucosa of the forestomach. Histopathological ϐindings consisted of varying degrees of necrosis of the epithelial lining of the forestomach and of lymphocytes within lymphoid organs and aggregates. Fibrin thrombi were consistently found in sub-mucosal vessels of the forestomach and in the lumen of hepatic sinusoids. It is suggested that dehydration, septicemia and disseminated intravascular coagulation participate in the pathogenesis of the intoxication and play a role as a cause of death. A subsample of B. megapotamica var. weirii was frozen-dried and ground and analyzed using UHPLC (Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography) with high resolution Time of Flight mass spectrometry and tandem mass spectrometry, it was shown that the plant material contained at least 51 different macrocyclic trichothecenes at a total level of 1.1-1.2mg/g. About 15-20% of the total trichothecenes contents was found to be monosaccharide conjugates, with two thirds of these being glucose conjugates and one third constituted by six aldopentose conjugates (probably xylose), which has never been reported in the literature.

Abstract. An outbreak of an acute disease in buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) caused by the ingestion of Baccharis megapotamica var. weirii occurred in the southern region of Brazil. Ten out of 50 buffalo died 24-48 hr after being introduced into a pasture containing abundant amounts of the plant. Factors influencing the ingestion of the plant and consequent toxicosis included hunger, stress caused by shipment, and unfamiliarity with the plant. Clinical signs included serous ocular discharge, incoordination, mild bloat, and muscle trembling. One buffalo was necropsied. Gross findings included dehydration, abundant liquid in the rumen, reddening of the mucosa of forestomachs, abomasum, and intestine, and edema of the wall of the rumen. The main histologic lesions were superficial to full thickness degeneration and necrosis of the stratified epithelium lining the forestomachs, necrosis of the intestinal mucosa, and widespread lymphoid necrosis. A calf (Bos taurus) was fed a single dose of 5 g/kg/body weight of B. megapotamica var. weirii harvested from the same site where the buffalo died. Twenty hours after the administration of the plant this calf died with clinical signs and lesions similar to those observed in the naturally poisoned buffalo.

Pesq. Vet. Bras. 31(6): 487-494, junho 2011 RESUMO.-Foram encontrados nove casos de carcinoma de células renais em uma pesquisa de 586 tumores em bovinos provenientes de 6.706 necropsias realizadas nessa espécie num período de 45 anos . Seis bovinos morreram por complicações do tumor e três foram achados incidentais. Os bovinos acometidos por carcinoma de célu-las renais demonstraram os seguintes sinais clínicos: perda de peso (5 casos), massas abdominais palpáveis (4 casos), dificuldade respiratória (4 casos), tosse (4 casos), hiporexia (3 casos), anorexia (2 casos), dor abdominal (2 casos) e febre (1 caso). Os sinais clínicos observados estavam relacionados ao comprometimento induzido pelas metástases, que foram observadas nos nove casos. As metástases foram observadas nos linfonodos abdominais, superfícies serosas, fígado e pulmão. Dois bovinos tinham tumor renal bilateral. Microscopicamente, foi observado o padrão tubular, sólido e um misto de sólido e tubular e tubulopapilífero. O tipo celular eosinofílico foi predominante, apenas um tumor sólido era constituído basicamente . Of those, six cattle died due to complications related to the tumors and in three cattle the tumors were incidental findings. Clinical signs displayed by cattle affected by renal cell carcinoma were weight loss (5 cases), palpable abdominal masses (4 cases), respiratory distress (4 cases), cough (4 cases), partial (3 cases) or complete (2 cases) anorexia, abdominal pain (2 cases) and fever (1 case). The observed clinical signs were related to complications induced by metastasis that were present in all of the nine cases. Metastases were observed in the abdominal lymph nodes, peritoneum, liver and lung. Two cattle had bilateral renal tumors. Microscopically, tubular, solid, and mixed solid and tubulopapillary patterns were observed. The eosinophilic cellular type was predominant and only one solid tumor was basically formed by clear cells. Scirrhous reaction varied from mild to marked. Corpora amylaceae was a common finding. At immunohistochemistry, all tested tumors displayed variable degrees of positive reactivity to keratin AE1/AE3 and to CD10. CD10 was strongly positive in clear cells renal carcinomas and less intense in the other tumor types. Focal and weak reactivity for anti-PAX-2 was observed in three. Immunohistochemistry was negative for cytokeratin 34β12, c-KIT (CD117), S-100, chromogranine A and apoprotein A surfactant. The results obtained indicated that primary renal cell carcinoma are uncommon in cattle in southern Brazil with an average of cases of 1.3 cases per 1,000 necropsies and that anti-CD10 is a useful marker in the diagnosis of primary renal cell carcinoma in cattle.INDEX TERMS: Diseases of cattle, neoplasia, kidney, pathology.