ABSTRACT
O estabelecimento e a evolução da leptospirose em hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) pela infecção experimental com Leptospira interrogans sorovar Canicola, estirpe LO4, pela exposição cutânea íntegra e escarificada, tendo como controle a via intraperitoneal foram avaliados. Foram utilizados 120 hamsters, fêmeas, distribuídas em dois grupos de acordo com a via de inoculação (pele escarificada e pele íntegra). O inóculo infeccioso foi constituído por uma cultura pura de L. interrogans sorovar Canicola (estirpe LO4), isolada do fígado de um suíno de abatedouro em Londrina, Estado do Paraná e tipificada pela técnica de adsorção de aglutininas com o kit de anticorpos monoclonais no Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdã, Holanda. Os animais foram observados duas vezes ao dia, durante 21 dias. Os animais que vieram a óbito foram necropsiados e colhidos assepticamente rins, fígado, sistema genital (útero e ovário) e cérebro. Os animais sobreviventes foram eutanasiados após 21 dias. Foram ainda colhidas amostras de soro sanguíneo por punção cardíaca para a pesquisa de aglutininas antileptospiras nos animais sobreviventes, pela técnica de soroaglutinação microscópica (SAM). Para a detecção de leptospiras, foram utilizados microscopia direta a fresco e cultivo microbiológico. A via cutânea escarificada induziu maior letalidade quando comparada com a pele integra, com estabelecimento e evolução da leptospirose. Por outro lado, a via cutânea íntegra induziu mais frequentemente o estado de portador renal e/ou genital para leptospirose. A estirpe LO4 apresentou baixo poder imunogênico, induzindo soroconversão na SAM em apenas um animal.
The establishment and evolution of leptospirosis in hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) by experimental infection with Leptospira interrogans serovar Canicola, LO4 strain, by intact and scratched skin exposures, having as control the intraperitoneal route, were evaluated. Hundred-twenty female hamsters distributed in two groups according to inoculation route (intact and scratched skin) were used. Infectious inoculum was constituted by a pure culture of L. interrogans serovar Canicola (strain LO4), isolated from liver from a slaughtered swine in Londrina, Paraná state and typified by agglutinins adsortion technique with monoclonal antibody kit at the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The animals were observed twice a day during 21 days. Animals that died were necropsied and kidneys, liver, genital tract (uterus and ovaries) and brain were aseptically collected. On the 21st post-inoculation day, surviving animals were euthanized. In these animals, serum samples were also collected by cardiac puncture to antileptospires agglutinins research using microscopic agglutination test (MAT). Fresh direct microscopy and microbiological culture were used for the detection of leptospires. Scratched skin route induced larger lethality when compared to intact skin route, with establishment and evolution of leptospirosis. On the other hand, intact skin route induced renal and/or genital carrier state more frequently. LO4 strain presented low immunogenic power, characterized by soroconversion at the MAT in only one inoculated animal.
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Animals , Rats , Cricetinae , Leptospirosis , MesocricetusABSTRACT
Escherichia coli is the most important etiologic agent implied in neonatal diarrhea in swine; colibacillosis is the disease with highest impact in production of swine. The demands of consumers for meat without chemical residues and the ban on the use of antibiotics and chemotherapics in production of swine compelled to find alternative therapeutic and preventive treatments. Aims: to assess homeopathic treatment as preventive against colibacillosis in swine. Methods: the study was conducted in a farm in Mato Grosso, Brazil; stools of 4 piglets with diarrhea were collected to establish the presence of E. coli; concomitantly it was performed a clinical exam to identify the symptoms leading to the choice of a homeopathy remedy. Newborn piglets were divided into 4 groups (n= 11 or 12): 1) control, subjected to antibiotic treatment against diarrhea; 2) homeopathic treatment, performed with Phosphorus 30cH according to the symptoms collected; 3) biotherapic treatment, performed with Escherichia coli 30cH prepared from the locally obtained bacteria; 4) homeopathic + biotherapics treatment. Results: all 3 groups treated with homeopathy/isotherapy presented a significant reduction of diarrhea compared to the control group (p=0.02); the group treated with Phosphorus 30cH + Escherichia coli 30cH presented the highest weight gain which was significant by comparison to all other groups (p=0.001). Conclusion: homeopathic and biotherapics treatment were more effective than antibiotics in the control of diarrhea in newborn piglets; combination of homeopathic and isopathic treatment resulted in the highest weight gain. These results suggest that homeopathy and isopathy are effective alternatives for the treatment of diarrhea by E. coli in newborn swine.