FINDINGS IN CEPHALIC CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS CAUSED BY SECONDARY ORGANOPATHIES RESULTING FROM CANINE BABESIOSIS

Authors

  • Arpad Sallay
  • B Bacescu
  • N Bercaru
  • R Condrut

Abstract

This paper aimed at describing the cephalic clinical manifestations brought about by the secondary organopathies resulting from babesiosis in 42 dogs that were examined and studied in the Medical Pathology Clinic of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Spiru Haret University and the Tiovet Centre for Diagnosis and Treatment in Bucharest. The dogs that were diagnosed with babesiosis had an indifferent facies, photophobia with xerophthalmia and slower palpebral reflexes, the conjunctival and gingival mucous membrane being quite pale in 27 dogs (64.28 %), sub-icteric in 10 dogs (23.8 %) and icteric in 15 dogs (11.9 %). We noticed the thickened tongue with the molar tooth print in 23 dogs (54.76 %), with white-greyish accumulations of matter in 8 cases (19.04 %) and xerostomia in 19 subjects (45.23 %). The kidney and liver functional changes were biochemically confirmed by determining uraemia (between 40 and 50 mg/dl in 15 cases, between 51 and 100 mg/dl in 24 cases, over 100 mg/dl in 3 cases) and the alanine aminotransferase (between 60 and 85 UI/l in 2 cases, between 90 and 100 UI/l in 28 cases, over 110 mg/dl in 12 cases). The main urine changes referred to haemoglobinuria (between 0.2 and 1 mg/dl in 24 cases, over 1 mg/dl in 18 cases). The biochemical establishment of babesiosis was based on the determination of the haemoglobinaemia (under 5 mg/dl in 3 cases, between 5 and 6 mg/dl in 24 cases, between 6 and 7 mg/dl in 5 cases; reference values: 8-12 g/dl). The disease was confirmed by revealing the pear-shaped sporozoites in the red cells. Peripheral blood smears were done by using the May-Grünwald-Giemsa staining method. The disease was confirmed by the presence of Babesia canis. Key words: babesiosis, ammonia halitosis, anaemia, jaundice, xerostomia 

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