INFECTIOUS KERATOCONJUNTIVITIS OUTBREAK IN OVINES DUE TO Moraxella spp IN STATE OF GOIÁS, BRAZIL
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https://doi.org/10.5216/cab.v9i1.3695Keywords:
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This article reports an infectious keratoconjuntivitis outbreak in sheeps (OKC) situated in Quirinopólis Goiás, where raised 140 ovines for slaughter and from these 100 became ill. Moraxela bovis isolation was done in culture medium in the Food Analysis Center and Microbiological Latoratory of Veterinary Medicine Department, both from the Veterinary College of Goiás Federal University. The disease focus control envolved the following protocol: 1. hygienics – animal quarantine in low luminosity ambient, rest and appropriate food; 2. medicamentous – eye washing with 0,9% sodium chloride solution followed by application oxytetracyclin chloridrate ophtalmic ointment and intramuscular injection of long-acting oxytetracyclin chloridrate in ill and healthy animals; 3. preventive – use of commercial vacine against OKC and fly control. Recovery of the great part of animals minimized the damages and avoid the disease spreading on this farm and others surrounding properties. In Brazil, there are few studies about OKC outbreaks. The incentive to carry out this study was the scarceness of data related to this serious ocular deasease caused by bacterium Moraxela spp. in ovines in state of Goiás.
KEY WORDS: Keratoconjuntivitis, Moraxella spp,.sheep.
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