Estudo retrospectivo de casos de pitiose em equinos atendidos no hospital veterinário da UFPB, com base no tratamento clínico.

Abstract

Cutaneous pythiosis in equines is an infectious disease of chronic and granulomatous character that affects the skin tissue of equines, and has a rapid progression. The etiological agent of this disease is Pythium insidiosum, this microorganism lives in flooded regions, thus affecting horses that have contact with these sites, but the animal has to have a microlesion or wound to be the gateway. The way of diagnosing this disease may be through the clinical signs of the animal along with the macroscopic characteristics of the lesion. The aim of the present study was to carry out a survey of cases of pythiosis in equines attended at the Veterinary Hospital of the Federal University of Paraíba, located in the city of Areia-PB in the periods from January 2015 to July 2021, where these data were obtained through the forms of care available at the Veterinary Hospital. In this period 21 cases of pythiosis were confirmed, of these 11 were performed the treatment of the surgical form through the resection of the affected tissue, and 10 of them were performed the clinical treatment. Therefore, we concluded that the clinical treatment instituted at the UFPB Veterinary Hospital, based on the acetonide of triamcinolone, potassium iodide and wound cleaning, is a good therapeutic alternative, as it presented a high efficacy in the treatment of pythiosis, where all 10 animals that have undergone this treatment had clinical cure of the disease.