Artigo
Aspectos da toxoplasmose na clínica de pequenos animais
Clinical aspects of toxoplasmosis in small animal
Registro en:
Semina-ciencias Agrarias. Londrina: Univ Estadual Londrina, v. 35, n. 1, p. 393-409, 2014.
1676-546X
10.5433/1679-0359.2014v35n1p393
WOS:000340334000037
WOS000340334000037.pdf
5950594366829647
Autor
Galvao, Andre Luiz Baptista [UNESP]
Vaconcellos, Amanda Leal de [UNESP]
Navarro, Italmar Teodorico
Bresciani, Katia Denise Saraiva [UNESP]
Resumen
Toxoplasmosis, a zoonosis of worldwide distribution, has importance in human and veterinary medicine. Animals can be direct or indirect source of infection to man, and this intermediate host, the disease may be responsible for encephalitis and deaths due to congenital form as coinfection in neonates and patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The man and animals can acquire the disease by eating undercooked meat or cures, infected with tissue cysts, as well as food and water contaminated with oocysts. Iatrogenic, such as, blood transfusion and organ transplantation are other less frequent routes of transmission. The causative agent of this disease is Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan obligate intracellular coccidian. In small animals, the infection has been reported in several countries, promoting varied clinical manifestations and uncommon but severe and fatal, which is a challenge in the clinical diagnosis of small animals, especially when the nervous system involvement. Thus, constitute the purpose of this review address the participation of small animals in the spread of the disease, clinical aspects related to it, as well as discuss methods of diagnosis, therapeutic measures, prophylaxis and control of this disease. Univ Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Fac Ciencias Agr & Vet, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Londrina, Ctr Ciencias Agr, Londrina, PR, Brazil UNESP, Fac Med Vet Aracatuba, Aracatuba, SP, Brazil Univ Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Fac Ciencias Agr & Vet, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil UNESP, Fac Med Vet Aracatuba, Aracatuba, SP, Brazil