Erliquiose em cães

Abstract

Canine ehrlichiosis is an illness caused for a bacterium of the Ehrlichia sort that is obligator intracellular parasites of leukocytes and platelets. The species that more infect the dogs are E. canis, E. ewigii and E. platys. It is diagnosised in the world all and in Brazil its incidence is increasing. The affected dogs are of any age, sex or race, but puppies, German Shepherds and Dobermans Pinchers can develop a more serious form of the disease. The vector is the brown tick of the dogs (Rhipicephalus sanguineus) that it contaminates when ingesting infected cells and inoculates the Ehrlichia when is feed of the blood of another dog. The course of the disease is divided in 3 phases: acute, subclinical and chronic, occurring clinical, hematologics alterations and biochemists varying of light the severe ones. Some forms of diagnosis of erliquiose exist, as the detention of intracellular morulae in stained blood smears, Indirect Fluorescent Antibody (IFA), Elisa, PCR and others. The treatment if gives with the antimicrobials use, being the doxycycline the election drug, use of imidocarb dipropionate and therapies of support. The Prophylaxis of ehrlichiosis is made through the control of the tick, forty days and treatment of dogs proceeding from endemic areas and serologic tests for detention of asymptomatic animals. This work has as objective, to characterize the some clinical, hematologics alterations, the diverse forms of diagnosis and ideal therapy for the dogs with this illness.