Correlación entre signos clínicos y pruebas serológicas para el diagnóstico de Ehrlichia Canis en la ciudad de Cúcuta.

Abstract

The canine ehrlichiosis is a relatively new disease and emerging, transmitted by ticks of the genus Rhipicephalus sanguineus or brown tick that causes serious physiological changes in the affected dogs, the causative agent of this disease is a rickettsia intracellular monocyte cells of the blood, although it has been described a strain that affects the lymphocytes and neutrophils.

The objective of this work is to determine what clinical and serological parameters are more characteristic of the Ehrlichia canis infection in their different stages of submission and to identify in that race, age and sex there is a greater predisposition of susceptibility to Ehrlichia canis.

It was evaluated in 73 patients with symptoms compatible with Ehrlichia canis, these patients underwent the different laboratory tests that were investigated by as hematic box full, test and test of hemoparasites Snap 4DX. Of the hemogram analyzed the count of leukocytes, lymphocytes, neutrophils, thrombocytes and total protein. It was found that 54.7 % of the patients were evaluated posittivos for Ehrlichia canis and the 45.2 % was for Anaplasma would radiate, these results are cofirmaron by the 3 tests worked; of populations is positive for Ehrlichia canis was obtained 42.5 % of the population is studied with normal leukocyte count, 77.5 % the normal lymphocyte count, 67.5 % of the cases with neutrophilia, where 70.3 % is a mild neutrophilia, the count of thrombocytes is identified that 70% of the cases is studied with thrombocytopenia, of which 42.8 % is of moderate type With regard to the symptomatology evidenced during the medical examination of the great whole patients have teperaturas above 39 °C, decay, conjunctival congestion of mucous and gingival, lymphadenitis submaxillary lymph and bend, congestion of the kidneys, hepatomegaly and to a lesser percentage showed petechiae and bruises.