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Ehrlichiosis is the multiorgan infectious disease caused by small, intracellular rickettsias from the genus Ehrlichia. These microorganisms are known as an etiologic factor of infections world wide in humans and in different species of animals. Dog ehrlichiosis can be caused by several species of Ehrlichia attacking different groups of blood cells, but most often an infection by Ehrlichia canis is diagnosed with special relation to monocytes. A vector for E. canis are Rhipicephalus sanguineus and Ixodes ricinus, commonly occurring in Poland. Disease caused by E. canis is known as Canine Monocytic Ehrlichiosis (CME). The disease most often has an asymptomatic course which can, in favourable circumstances, run into acute or chronic forms. The acute form of CME proceeds usually with fever, apathy, weakness and accompanying respiratory symptoms, lameness and disturbances in blood coagulation. In laboratory examinations thrombocytopenia, anemia and leucopenia are ascertained. The chronic form of CME proceeds among gentle, unspecific symptoms which may last even 5 years. The CME diagnosis is difficult and often demands parallel different diagnostic methods. A medicines of choice in the ehrlichiosis treatment are antibiotics from the group of tetracyclines, given at least for 28 days. They are largely efficient during treatment of the acute CME, causing the quick improvement. Instead, in the case of chronic form, answer for treatment can be weak, and cases of resistance to antibiotics ave known.
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Enfermedades de los Perros/microbiología , Ehrlichiosis/veterinaria , Animales , Vectores Artrópodos , Enfermedades de los Perros/sangre , Enfermedades de los Perros/epidemiología , Enfermedades de los Perros/patología , Perros , Ehrlichiosis/sangre , Ehrlichiosis/epidemiología , Ehrlichiosis/patología , Polonia/epidemiologíaRESUMEN
The aim of the present study was to compare the acid-base balance parameters of arterial, venous and capillary blood in clinically healthy goats, and to determine the electrolyte content of venous and arterial blood. The experiment was performed on ten adult goats. It was found that the acid-base balance parameters of venous blood differed from those of arterial blood, whereas the parameters of capillary and arterial blood were similar. The levels of sodium and chloride ions in arterial and venous blood were similar, whereas the level of potassium ions was higher in venous blood.
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Sangre/metabolismo , Cabras/sangre , Animales , Arterias , Capilares , Cloruros/sangre , Femenino , Concentración de Iones de Hidrógeno , Masculino , Potasio/sangre , Valores de Referencia , Sodio/sangre , VenasRESUMEN
Colic in horses very often induces changes in the coagulation system causing the development of disseminated intravascular clotting. It is promoted by blood concentration and an increase in exposition of coagulation activators with a simultaneous decrease in coagulation inhibitors activity, mainly antithrombin III. Progressing blood platelets aggregation supports production of microthromboses and plugging capillary vessels. The progression of this processes causes complications in basic disease and becomes the reason for therapeutic failure. Determination of coagulation system indexes such as the number of platelets, prothrombin time, activated partial thromboplastin time, thrombin time, concentration of fibrinogen and fibrinogen degradation products, and D-dimmer and antithrombin III contents enables diagnosis and facilitates appropriate therapy of colic in horses.
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Coagulación Sanguínea , Cólico/veterinaria , Enfermedades de los Caballos/sangre , Animales , Cólico/sangre , CaballosRESUMEN
The dysfunction of muscles, especially that of the cardiac muscle, is one of the most dangerous for the life pathological states. The determination of biochemical indexes such as AST, ALT, CK, LDH, mioglobin, etc., which has been used so far in animals is not a sufficient diagnostic method. Therefore, new markers, levels of which could reflect the state of a patient more precisely, have been sought. Troponin, a protein found in skeletal and cardiac muscles only, has been considered a reliable index of myocardial ischemia in animals, especially in dogs. Its diagnostic properties have appeared to be a valuable complementation of the other diagnostic methods and thus could have gained a lot of veterinary practitioners interest.