DIAGNÓSTICO DIFERENCIAL DA ESPOROTRICOSE CANINA NO MUNICÍPIO DE JOÃO PESSOA-PARAÍBA: RELATO DE CASO

Abstract

Sporotrichosis is na important fungal desease caused by Sporothrix schenckii, which affects humans and animals, with clinical manifestations of pyogranulomatous skin. The felines are the main disseminators of the disease, transmitting the micoorganism through the inoculation by scratching and biting. It is a fungus that will adopt decaying organic matter, plants, thorns and woods with high humidity. The presente work aims to report the case of a dog of the breed Poodle, 04 (four) years old who was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for Veneral Transmissible Tumor (TVT), where the diagnosis was made erroneously and mistakenly, not the have taken into account the laboratory tests to close the diagnosis of the pathogenesis. The same was attended at the Veterinary Hospital of the UFPB, Campus II in the city of Areia- Paraíba, with the main objective being na abdominal surgery. The patient was submitted to clinical examination, from wich the tests were performed, such as biochemistry, hematology, ultrasonography, cytology and fungal culture. The haematological or biochemical examination was found in any of the changes. The cytological examination of a series of intense infammatory processes with presence of machophages with foamy character, caryolysis and cariorexia, presence of epitelial cells that presente discret anisocytosis and anisocariasis, and a great number of coccoid bactéria. On ultrasonography the patient was diagnosed whith splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, prostatitis and gastrites. In the fungal culture performed at the Cytus Clinic Visible Veterinary Medicine for the growth of a colony whose macroscopy was of crude staining and glabrous texture, microscopically visualized septate, hyaline and delicate hyphae. The colonies contained yeast cell that varied in globular and oval shape and size, confirming the diagnosis of canine esporotrichosis. Before the diagnosis and clinical presentation of the patient, treatment with a hepatic protector (HepVet), food supplement (Nutralogic), shampoo of Miconazole and Itraconazole at the dose of 10mg/kg was started. What is new in the future when you are sick, the same had a good response to the treatment instituded.