Eficácia da impressão cutânea com fita de acetato comparada ao raspado cutâneo profundo na pesquisa de Demodex canis e Sarcoptes scabiei

Abstract

In the small animal medicine, the dermatopathies has major incidence, which makes necessary the research to facilitate the dermatologic routine. It is essential the accomplishment of parasitological examination of skin during a dermatological evaluation, and the method more utilized to mites search it is the deep skin scraping. Thereby, this study has the objective of to verify the efficacy of the technique of acetate tape impression in the search for D. canis and S. scabiei mites. This work was developed with dogs received in dermatologic attendance of Hospital Veterinário Universitário of Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (HVU-UFSM). During six months, 134 samples were collected by each technique from 115 dogs, which 27 have demodicosis, 12 have scabies and 78 have others dermatopathies. The impression with acetate tape, when compared to deep skin scraping, was significantly superior to find D. canis and S. scabiei mites (p = 0.007). It was concluded that acetate tape impression can be used to diagnose mite dermatopathies as well it produces reliable results during its therapy, helping in diagnose of others dermatopathies by exclusion.