Pemphigus foliaceus is an autoimmune dermatosis characterized by vesicobullous, pustular and crusted skin lesions resulting from acantholysis process. Diagnosis is based on animal history, physical evaluation, cytopathological analysis and confirmed by histopathology. The present study aimed to describe the clinical presentation, and cytological and histopathological findings in the diagnosis of pemphigus folia...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T22:37:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-06-13; Background: Leishmaniasis is one of the most important vector-borne diseases of humans. This parasitic disease can be caused by many species of Leishmania. In humans, different species of the parasite are associated with different forms of the disease, cutaneous and visceral. Among domesticated animals,...
Cardiac measurement by chest X-ray is very important in the cardiac characterization of dogs and cats, however, the wild animal clinic has a different reality. Opossums (Didelphis albiventris) are part of the Brazilian fauna and are frequently referred for clinical and radiographic evaluation. The objective of this research was to evaluate the thorax of skunks and establish the average of VHS and VLAS for these...
Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC), also called Boxer Cardiomyopathy, is known to affect mainly dogs of this breed. This disease is hereditary and characterized by the replacement of cardiomyocytes of the right ventricle by fibrous fatty tissue. This condition leads to a derangement in the conduction of electrical impulses, resulting in arrhythmias, which is one of the main clinical signs ob...
Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq; Rangeliosis was first described in 1908, despite the elapsed time after its discovery, it is a reemergent disease. So far they have been reported in Brazil, mainly in the southern region of the country, Argentina and Uruguay. Currently it is known that this disease only occurs in domestic and wild canids. Rangeliosis is caused by t...
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior; Rangelia vitalii is a member of the protozoan phylum Apicomplexa, class Sporozoasida, order Piroplasmorida, that causes a disease called rangeliosis in dogs, popularly known as " bleeding plague" or "nambyuvú". The transmission of this parasite occurs through tick and affects dogs in rural and periurban areas especially in hotter times of the year, wh...