DOENÇA DO CARRAPATO: AVALIAÇÃO DAS ALTERAÇÕES OBSERVADAS NO HEMOGRAMA DE ANIMAIS COM DIAGNÓSTICO DEFINITIVO DE EHRLICHIOSE CANINA

Abstract

Tick disease is a popular name used to refer to a complex of infectious agents that can be transmitted to dogs by ticks, also known as hemoparasitosis. The term refers to disease caused by one or an association of more than one of the following agents: Ehrlichia canis, Babesia canis, Anaplasma platys, Mycoplasma haemocanis, Hepatozoon canis. The need to assess the sensitivity of the blood count and the quick 4dx snap test for the diagnosis of canine ehrlichiosis, that is, the tick disease, comes from the moment that it is realized that the blood count does not always indicate an objective result of the presence of ehrlichiosis however, it suggests suspicion of this presence in different parameters in the hemogram, such as: erythrogram and white blood cell count, therefore, there is a need to confirm the presence of hemoparasitosis by the rapid snap test 4dx. Therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate the sensitivity of the hemogram and the rapid snap 4dx test, in order to obtain a safe and accurate diagnosis in relation to the presence or not of canine Ehrlichiosis in the animal examined. For the development of this work, the following authors SAITO (2009) will be used as main theoretical support; AGUIAR (2009); DAGNONE (2003); DANTAS-TORRES (2008); LABRUNA (2007) among others. As a result, from the evaluation of the sensitivity of the blood count and the rapid snap 4dx test, it is expected to observe which parameters can be indicators of the presence of hemoparasitosis Ehrlichia canis.