RESUMO
Sendo a brucelose bovina enfermidade causadora de graves prejuízos em saúde animal, economia pecuária e saúde pública, seu controle terapêutico reveste-se da maior importância. Do ponto de vista prático, os resultados do presente trabalho sugerem que, em rebanho em que há brucelose, a vacinaçäo do gado sadio, mais a vacinçäo e o tratamento com antibiótico dos animais brucélicos em isolamento podem ser favoráveis
Assuntos
Animais , Brucelose Bovina/terapia , Vacinação , Antibacterianos , BovinosRESUMO
During the period from June 1974 to June 1975, five bovine fetuses between seven to nine months old were received for necropsy from four different counties of the S. Paulo State, Brazil. All of them were from brucellosis-free herds. Necropsy revealed slight liver enlargement generally accompanied by capsular petechial hemorrhages. Enlargement and congestion of the spleen, epicardial and endocardial petechiae were present in three fetuses and one of them had lungs with some hemorrhagic lobules. Cardiac blood films of all the fetuses stained by the Pappenheim's panoptic method showed Anaplasma marginale in two to 20% of red corpuscles. When stained with acridine orange and immunofluorescent methods blood films of the first fetus specifically showed A. marginale.