HEMATOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION BY Trypanosoma vivax IN SHEEP

Authors

  • Katyane Sousa Almeida UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO AMAZONAS
  • Fagner Luiz da Costa Freitas UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO AMAZONAS
  • Renata Lemos Nagib Jorge UNESP/JABOTICABAL
  • Claudia Aparecida da Silva Nogueira UNESP/JABOTICABAL
  • Rosangela Zacarias Machado UNESP/JABOTICABAL
  • Adjair Antonio do Nascimento UNESP/JABOTICABAL

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/cab.v9i4.1522

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Abstract

The research evaluated the hematological alterations in sheep infected experimentally with T. vivax strain precedent of Paraiba State. Eight male sheep were used, four in the testimony group and four infected with 105 T. vivax. Blood samples were collected two times before infection and posterior to receiving on days designated. The evaluated parameters were: red blood cell count, total leucocytes, hemoglobin, hematocritic, mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, transferrin and iron. The animals were examined daily by pasitemia. The statistical analysis was carried through using the Wilcoxon test of 5% of probability. The results were: parasites were detected in the blood on the first day after the infection of the intermittent parasite until the end of the experiment, there was a significant decrease in the red blood cell count, hemoglobin and in the hematocritic and in the average mean corpuscular volume, the anaemia, at the end of the observations, were microcitic, normochromic.  The transferrin that were high and iron decreased at the end of the experimental period and observed leucocytosis due to the lymphocytes. The T. vivax strain precedent of Paraiba State occasioned relevant hematological alterations in sheep characterized for anaemia and elevation of leukocytes.

KEY WORKS: Haematologia, sheep, Trypanosoma.

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Author Biographies

Katyane Sousa Almeida, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO AMAZONAS

Área parasitologia

Fagner Luiz da Costa Freitas, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO AMAZONAS

Istituto de ciência e biotecnologia

Renata Lemos Nagib Jorge, UNESP/JABOTICABAL

Departamento de clínica de animais

Claudia Aparecida da Silva Nogueira, UNESP/JABOTICABAL

departamento de clínica animal

Rosangela Zacarias Machado, UNESP/JABOTICABAL

Departamento de Patologia Animal

Adjair Antonio do Nascimento, UNESP/JABOTICABAL

departamento de medicina veterinária preventiva e reprodução animal

Published

2008-12-21

How to Cite

ALMEIDA, K. S.; FREITAS, F. L. da C.; JORGE, R. L. N.; NOGUEIRA, C. A. da S.; MACHADO, R. Z.; NASCIMENTO, A. A. do. HEMATOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION BY Trypanosoma vivax IN SHEEP. Brazilian Animal Science/ Ciência Animal Brasileira, Goiânia, v. 9, n. 4, p. 1121–1127, 2008. DOI: 10.5216/cab.v9i4.1522. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/1522. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.

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Veterinary Medicine

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