Ocorrência de esporotricose felina no município de Campina Grande - PB

Abstract

There are few reports on sporotrichosis in the state of Paraíba, which is a limiting factor for the establishment of adequate measures to control the disease in the state. There were no official reports of the occurrence of cases of feline sporotrichosis in Campina Grande before 2021. Therefore, this work aimed to report the occurrence of feline sporotrichosis in the municipality of Campina Grande. A descriptive, cross-sectional epidemiological study was carried out using secondary data referring to animal sporotrichosis monitoring exams provided by the Zoonosis Control Center of Campina Grande-PB, referring to the period from January 2022 to January 2024. The data was organized in a Microsoft Office Excel® spreadsheet, the frequency of the disease was calculated according to year of diagnosis, sex and age and a map of the disease's spatial distribution was created. From January 2022 to January 2024, 90 felines with suspected sporotrichosis were identified, of which 81 (90%) were diagnosed as positive for sporotrichosis, with a higher frequency of positives in adult felines and males, however, without statistical difference. The data show that feline sporotrichosis is present in 47.5% (29/61) of the city's neighborhoods and in the urban agglomerations of the three districts of the municipality of Campina Grande. Even after all the reports in Brazil, sporotrichosis remains an underestimated, underreported and neglected disease.