No abstract

No abstract

Resistência antihelmíntica é um problema potencial para o controle de nematodas em bovinos e pode causar perdas econômicas na indústria de bovinos leiteiros e de cortes. O objetivo deste estudo foi determinar a eficácia da ivermectina, doramectna e abamectina em bezerros infectados naturalmente e experimentalmente para Cooperia punctata em um rebanho bovino leiteiro. Testes de redução da contagem de ovos fecais foram conduzidos em bezerros infectados naturalmente que foram tratados com soluções injetáveis de ivermectina, doramectina e abamectina. Amostras fecais foram colhidas no dia do tratamento, dia 0, e nos dias 7 e 14 após o tratamento e cultura de larvas foram feitas nas amostras positivas. Um teste controlado foi realizado usando 18 bezerros infectados artificialmente,alocados em três grupos com seis animais cada: Grupo I - controle, sem tratamento; Grupo II - ivermectina, solução injetável, 200µg/kg; Grupo III - doramectina, solução injetável, 200µg/kg. Amostras fecais foram colhidas no dia do tratamento, dia 0, e nos dias 3, 7, 9 e 14 após o tratamento. Nos dias 14, 15 e 16, dois animais de cada grupo foram eutanaziados e cargas de parasitos pulmonares e gastrintestinais foram determinados. Os resultados dos testes de redução da contagem de ovos fecais em bezerros infectados naturalmente mostraram redução no dia 14 após o tratamento de - 4,45 a 11,49% para ivermectina; 32.31 a 60.40% para doramectina e 85,05% para abamectina. O único parasito identificado na cultura de larvas foi Cooperia spp. O Teste Controlado mostrou uma redução da contagem de ovos fecais no dia 14 após o tratamento de 51.47% e 96.08% para ivermectina e doramectina, respectivamente. Redução da contagem de adultos neste teste controlado foi de 53.91% e 82.43% para ivermectina e doramectina, respectivamente. Somente C. punctata foi recuperado nas necropsias. Assim, esta cepa de C. punctata foi considerado resistente ao tratamento com ivermectina e doramectina e sugere uma possível resistência para abamectina pelo teste de redução da contagem de ovos fecais.

Tungiasis is a neglected parasitic skin disease, caused by the female sand flea Tunga penetrans penetration, that is associated with poverty and occurs in many poor resourced communities in the Caribbean, South America and Africa. Although its effects on humans and domestic animals are well described in the literature, its epidemiology in indigenous populations remains enigmatic and little is known about the tungiasis impact on wild animals, such as jaguars, the only Panthera genus member on the American continent, an important species as an indicator of environmental integrity, which, in Brazil, is on the list of animals threatened with extinction by the Environment Ministry, categorized as vulnerable. The carnivore population decline in Amazon would be accelerated, especially in the eastern and southern border of the Amazonian domain, and it is known that anthropic factors favor the spread of generalist pathogens to new environments and species, representing a greater risk for wild populations. Thus, ectoparasites identification in jaguars is important not only to understand the role of this feline in maintaining the vectors in the wild, but also to know possible agents that can be transmitted by them. The objective of the present work is to report the tungiasis occurrence in five jaguars run over in Sinop, Sorriso and Lucas do Rio Verde, northern MT, between 2018 and 2020; this being the first scientific report found of parasitism by T. penetrans in jaguars in the Amazon biome. The lesions were found on the animals paws, characterizing phases two to five of the Fortaleza classification, and the infestations were evaluated as high, in the youngest animals, to low, suggesting that parasitism degree would be related to the age of the host.

Recreational sands are important places for human interaction, despite the risk to public health as a result of being exposed to the accumulation of bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites due to daily exposure to waste produced by users, human secretions and animal excrement. The objective of this study was to perform the microbiological and parasitic analysis of 16 sandboxes for recreation in the municipality of Sinop-MT. The evaluations included: enumeration of total and thermotolerant coliforms, identification of Escherichia coli and endoparasites research. Of the samples surveyed, 68,75% (11/16) presented contamination by total coliforms and 43,75% (7/16) presented contamination by thermotolerant coliforms. The presence of Escherichia coli was detected in seven (43,75%) of the samples, and no contamination was detected by helminth eggs, but three samples (18,75%) were contaminated by larvae of the filiform and rabditoid type. In this way it is evident that the recreation areas of Sinop municipality have contamination that exposes the population to risk of infections, being necessary a better monitoring and hygiene so that it has an improvement of quality of these areas.