Efecto de remedios homeopáticos y gentamicina en diarreas en crías porcinas / Effect of homeopathic remedies and gentamicin in diarrhea in piglets

El estudio tuvo como objetivo evaluar el efecto de nux vómica y el complejo homeopático TratHo® cólera en comparación con la gentamicina al 5% en la diarrea de lechones. Se trabajó con 150 lechones de cinco días de nacidos que presentaron diarrea en una unidad porcina de Camagüey, Cuba. Los lechones fueron distribuidos en tres grupos, cada uno de 50 individuos. A los animales del grupo I se le administró nux vomica a la 30 CH en dosis de 5 gotas sublinguales cada 12 h el 1er día y luego cada 24 h hasta el 5° día. En el grupo II se les administró TratHo colera a la 30 CH en dosis de 5 gotas sublinguales cada 12 h el 1er día y luego cada 24 h hasta el 5° día. En el grupo III se les administró Gentamicina al 5% por vía intramuscular en dosis de 2 a 4 mg/kg de peso vivo, cada 12 h durante 5 días. En todos los casos, los lechones fueron rehidratados con solución Ringer, vía intraperitoneal, en dosis de 100 a 300 ml, según el grado de deshidratación. Se evaluó la evolución clínica, el apetito y la deshidratación sin llegar a encontrarse diferencias estadísticas entre grupos; no obstante la terapia homeopática resultó efectiva y más económica que el tratamiento con antibiótico.

Current status of food-borne parasitic zoonoses in Japan.

Epidemiological data on food-borne parasitic zoonoses in Japan is obscure because of the lack of legislated registration system for the incidence of such diseases. Attempts were made to draw rough estimates of the current status of food-borne parasitic diseases in Japan by gathering the annual incidence of each disease by literal survey and personal communications. In addition, parasitic diseases referred to and diagnosed in the Department of Parasitology, Miyazaki Medical College during 1999 were analyzed for the causative agents and the route of infection.

An outbreak of ascariasis with marked eosinophilia in the southern part of Kyushu District, Japan, caused by infection with swine ascaris.

Ascariasis has been a representative soil-transmitted intestinal parasitic disease in warm climates. In Japan, this disease was a major and serious public health problem only a few decades ago. However, the incidence of the disease nowadays is reportedly less than 0.01%. Recently in 1994 through 1995, we experienced a total of 14 cases who were suspected as having ascariasis. They were characterized by peripheral blood eosinophilia (30-70%), high serum titers against Ascaris antigen, and most notably, they were absolutely negative for Ascaris eggs in repeated fecal examinations. Specific antibody titers against Ascaris antigen correlated well with the degree of eosinophilia. All patients were living in narrow areas of Kyushu, Japan, where a lot of porcine farms were located. Most of the patients were asymptomatic and pointed out to have eosinophilia during follow-up studies of chronic diseases or in regular check-up. Only one patient had a clear sign of Löffler's syndrome and another had subcutaneous eosinophilic granuloma. However, laboratory examinations revealed moderate liver dysfunction in 7 patients and pulmonary infiltrations in 5 patients. Based on circumstantial and serological evidence, these patients were diagnosed as having been infected with Ascaris lumbricoides suum, a swine Ascaris.