Ocorrência de botulismo em bovinos confinados no Rio Grande do Sul

Franciele - Maboni; Fernanda Monego; Mateus Matiuzzi da Costa; Iveraldo Dutra; Agueda Palmira Castagna de Vargas

doi:10.5216/cab.v11i4.3336

OCCURRENCE OF BOTULISM IN FEEDLOT BOVINE IN RIO GRANDE DO SUL STATE/ BRAZIL

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Franciele - Maboni Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Fernanda Monego Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Mateus Matiuzzi da Costa Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco (UNIVASF), Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brasil
Iveraldo Dutra Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Jaboticabal, São Paulo, Brasil
Agueda Palmira Castagna de Vargas Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

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https://doi.org/10.5216/cab.v11i4.3336

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Abstract

Botulism is the intoxication caused by a neurotoxin produced by the Clostridium botulinum, distinguished by flacid or complete skeletal musculature paralysis. This study reports a botulism outbrake in feedlot bovine, fed with corn silage. Samples of the liver, and of the intestinal and ruminal content from one of the bovine that presented typical clinical state for botulism, as well as a portion of corn silage were sent for bacterial analysis. In the laboratory, bioassay and serum neutralization were performed on rats, confirming the suspect for type C botulism. This report intends to warn veterinaries and breeders, which practice herd feedlot, because this procedure increases botulism susceptibility, and it is mainly related to the type and quality of the food ingested.

Keywords: bovine, Clostridium botulinum, feedlot.

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2010-12-21

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MABONI, Franciele -; MONEGO, Fernanda; COSTA, Mateus Matiuzzi da; DUTRA, Iveraldo; VARGAS, Agueda Palmira Castagna de. OCCURRENCE OF BOTULISM IN FEEDLOT BOVINE IN RIO GRANDE DO SUL STATE/ BRAZIL. Brazilian Animal Science/ Ciência Animal Brasileira, Goiânia, v. 11, n. 4, p. 962–965, 2010. DOI: 10.5216/cab.v11i4.3336. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/3336. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.

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Vol. 11 No. 4 (2010)

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Case report

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