FREQUÊNCIA DE DEMODICOSE EM CÃES MANTIDOS NO CENTRO DE VIGILÂNCIA AMBIENTAL EM SAÚDE E ZOONOSE DE CAMPINA GRANDE

Abstract

Canine demodicosis is a parasitic skin disease very common and cosmopolitan occurrence, caused by follicle mite Demodex genus that has an intradermal cycle, and that feeds the sebaceous secretions, cells and epidermal debris. There is a shortage of studies on the ectoparasites fauna, More specifically, the frequency of causing mites demodicosis , present in dogs without the state of Paraíba and especially in the city of Campina Grande. Thus, the study was conducted in order to assess the frequency of demodicosis in animals seized and kept housed on Centro de Vigilância Ambiental em Saúde e Zoonose em Campina Grande in the period between February and May 2016. The laboratory diagnosis was made through shaved skin deep for examination skin and parasitological print on tape where the two diagnostic methods employed were compared in the study and as most common manifestation (localized or generalized) disease. In the study, we found some common ectoparasites in this species as Ctenocephalides spp. and Rhipicephalus sanguineus, and the frequency of demodicosis in dogs was high. The technique was more efficient was the parasitological examination of skin through the shaved skin deep when compared to the printing technique on tape and the most common form of presentation of the disease was widespread , characterized by adult outbreak.