Otro
Optic neuropathy in sheep associated with overdosage of closantel
Registro en:
Veterinary and Human Toxicology, v. 41, n. 6, p. 378-380, 1999.
0145-6296
WOS:000083906400008
2-s2.0-0345440136
Autor
Secorun Borges, Alexandre
Nogueria Mendes, Luiz Claudio
Lima de Andrade, Alexandre
Machado, Gisele Fabrino
Peiró, Juliana Regina
Resumen
This report describes clinical and pathological findings in 2 flocks in Brazil where blindness and deaths in sheep occurred after closantel overdosage. Depression, weakness, and blindness affected 37 animals and 17 died in 2 flocks of 190 animals. Two animals submitted for ophthalmic examination showed no inflammation in the anterior segment of both eyes; posterior segment evaluation by indirect ophthalmoscopy suggested retinal degeneration. One postmortem evaluation local spongy vacuolization was in several regions of the brain and the optical nerves had severe axonal degeneration.