Tratamento Alopático E Homeopático Em Caprinos Com Agalaxia Contagiosa: Estudo Comparativo

Abstract

RESUMO:Foram utilizados 30 caprinos naturalmente infectados pelo Mycoplasma agalactiae com a finalidade de comparar os tratamentos alopático e homeopático para agalaxia contagiosa. Os animais foram divididos em três grupos de forma aleatória e homogênea, sendo respectivamente, tratados com bioterápico (grupo I), com alopatia (grupo II) e controle (grupo III). No grupo I os animais receberam durante oito semanas, três doses diárias de 10 mL do bioterápico diluído em água potável. Os animais do grupo II foram tratados durante oito dias com tilosina e sete dias com oxitetraciclina LA (20 mg/kg). Todos os animais foram observados diariamente por um período de 365 dias para acompanhamento da evolução clínica. Após um período de 7 a 49 dias, foi observado cura clínica de todos os animais do grupo I. No grupo II a alopatia apesar de proporcionar uma diminuição da sintomatologia clínica, não possibilitou a cura clínica de todos os animais, onde foram observadas recidivas nos sinais clínicos de mastite ou agalaxia (40%) e artrite (25%). No grupo controle três animais com mastite e dois com ceratoconjuntivite permaneceram com os sintomas durante todo período experimental. Apesar da diminuição da sintomatologia clínica após a punção articular, um (20%) animal do grupo III veio a óbito devido à cronicidade do quadro clínico. Abortos foram observados no grupo II e III com 12,5% e 28,57% dos nascimentos, respectivamente. Concluise, portanto, que o tratamento da agalaxia contagiosa com bioterápico de M. agalactiae é eficaz no controle dos sinais clínicos em animais naturalmente infectados, sendo este superior em eficácia em comparação ao tratamento alopático. Palavras-chave: artrite; ceratoconjuntivite; mastite; Mycoplasma agalactiae ALLOPATHIC AND HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT WITH CONTAGIOUS AGALACTIA IN GOATS: A COMPARATIVE STUDYABSTRACT: 30 goats naturally infected by Mycoplasma agalactiae were used with the purpose of comparing the allopathic and homeopathic treatments for contagious agalactia. The animals were randomly and homogeneously divided, into three groups, being respectively treated with a biotherapeutic (group I), with allopathy (group II) and control (group III). In group I the animals received during eight weeks, three daily dosages of the biotherapeutic diluted in drinking water. The animals of the group II were treated during eight days with tylosine and seven days with oxytetracycline LA (20 mg/kg). All the animals were observed daily for a period of 365 days for the monitoring of the clinical evolution. After a period of 7b to 49 days, was observed clinical cure of all the animals from group I. In the group II despite the allopathy providing a reduction of the clinical symptomatology, it did not allow the clinical cure of all the animals and recurrences of the clinical signs of mastitis or agalactia (40%) and arthritis (25%) were observed. In the control group three animals with mastitis and two with keratoconjunctivitis remained with symptoms during all the experimental period. Despite the reduction of the clinic...

Mycoplasma agalactiae and the Mycoplasma mycoides cluster in goat herds in the states of Pernambuco and Paraíba, Brazil

“…Higher values were observed for total protein and casein in the milk samples positive for infectious agents in this study. However, as one of the main targets of contagious agalactia is the mammary gland (SILVA et al, 2013), affected animals may present a drastic decrease in their milk production but increase the concentration of total protein, as noted in this study. In such cases, the total protein is not a good indicator of productivity, since there is an increase in total protein values during the process of mammary gland infection, which is possibly associated with the increase of serum proteins in milk.…”

“…Northeastern Brazil contains approximately 90% of the country's goats; due to the economic losses that contagious agalactia may cause to livestock production in this region (SILVA et al, 2013), the diagnosis and identification of the species that cause this disease may reveal important information on the presence and circulation of these pathogens in goat herds and help to reduce the impacts caused by this disease on the production and quality of milk in addition to avoiding economic and public health problems.…”