ESTUDO RETROSPECTIVO DAS DOENÇAS DE SUÍNOS DIAGNOSTICADAS NO LABORATÓRIO DE PATOLOGIA VETERINÁRIA DA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA PARAÍBA

Abstract

The health of pigs depends on the balance between various factors such as adequate food, quality water, facilities and correct handling. The imbalance of these factors results in the occurrence of diseases in the swine population in the area of influence of the Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology of the Federal University of Paraíba, a retrospective study of all the cases diagnosed in the laboratory of Veterinary Pathology from January 2013 to December of 2017, with 32 cases with a conclusive diagnosis being separated. Pig breeding in Agreste Paraibano is predominantly family-run, often resulting in a lack of technical information and improvement for breeding, as a consequence, there is a subsistence breeding together with precarious sanitary hygiene, thus leading to the onset of diseases. Infectious and parasitic diseases were the most prevalent [23 (71.87%)], followed by pigs that presented other varied disorders [7 (21.87%)] and lower prevalence of metabolic or nutritional diseases [1, 12%)]. Viruses were responsible for half the causes of death of pigs studied, thus revealing the influence of different factors, such as management, environmental and nutritional factors, on pig farms in the region. The main diseases diagnosed in pigs in the Agreste region of Paraíba were circovirosis and parvovirus. It is concluded that infectious diseases are the main causes of death in the studied region.