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Brachiaria spp. poisoning of ruminants in Brazil
(2011-03) RIVERO, Beatriz Riet Correa; CASTRO, Márcio Botelho de; LEMOS, Ricardo Antônio Amaral de; CORREA, Gabriela Riet; MUSTAFA, Vanessa da Silva; CORREA, Franklin Riet
Brachiaria species are the most important grasses for cattle production in Brazil. However, a limiting factor for the use of Brachiaria spp. is their toxicity. Most outbreaks of hepatogenous photosensitization are caused by B. decumbens; however B. brizantha, B. humidicola and B. ruziziensis can also cause poisoning. The poisoning affects cattle, sheep, goats and buffalo. Sheep are more susceptible than other animal species and the young are more susceptible than adults. There are differences in susceptibility among animals of the same species and it has been suggested that this resistance is genetic. Also has been suggested that buffalo and probably some sheep are resilient, i.e. when poisoned these animals have histologic lesions and high GGT serum concentrations, but do not show clinical signs. In general, saponin concentrations are higher in growing plants, but outbreaks occur all over the year, probably due to unexplained rise in saponin concentration in the plant. A clinical syndrome of progressive weight loss and death, without photosensitization, has been reported in cattle poisoned by B. decumbens. Main preventive measures are based on the selection of resistant or resilient animals and on the development of Brachiaria species or varieties with low saponin concentration.
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Carcinoma de células escamosas perineal em cabras no Pará
(2009-05) BARBOSA NETO, José Diomedes; DUARTE, Marcos Dutra; OLIVEIRA, Carlos Magno Chaves; REIS, Alessandra dos Santos Belo; PEIXOTO, Tiago da Cunha; PEIXOTO, Paulo Fernando de Vargas; BRITO, Marilene de Farias
Squamous cell carcinoma in goats of two farms in the State of Pará is described. Prevalence, correlation with the pigmentation of the perineal area and macro and microscopic characteristics of the lesions were studied. The tumors on the perineum were of varied development degrees, diameters and forms. On one farm, in the county of Viseu, from a total of 347 goats, 20 presented the neoplasia (5.8%). On the second farm, in the county of Garrafão do Norte, three cases of squamous cell carcinoma in a herd of 400 goats (0.75%) were observed. The tumor was only observed in animals in which the perineal area was despigmented. The high incidence of this tumor appears to be due to lack of pigmentation at the períneo and the high and short tail of the goats, that exposes the area to intense ultraviolet radiation in the tropics.
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Conditioned food aversion to control poisoning by Ipomoea carnea subsp. fistulosa in goats
(2014-07) OLIVEIRA JÚNIOR, Carlos Alberto de; CORREA, Gabriela Riet; TAVARES, Carla; SOUZA, Elda Ely Gomes de; CERQUEIRA, Valíria Duarte; PFISTER, James A.; COOK, Daniel; CORREA, Franklin Riet
Ipomoea carnea is a toxic plant often ingested by livestock in Brazil. Three experiments were conducted to determine if conditioned food aversion was effective in reducing goats' consumption of I. carnea. In the first experiment, 10 mildly intoxicated goats that had been eating I. carnea were averted using LiCl (175 to 200mg kg-1 body weight). These intoxicated goats did not develop an aversion to I. carnea, demonstrating that the technique is not effective in goats that are already accustomed to consuming the plant. In the second experiment, 14 naïve goats were placed in a pasture with I. carnea, and averted after they ingested the plant. In this group the aversion persisted until the end of the experiment, 2 years and 8 months after the initial aversion. In another experiment, 20 goats were placed in a pasture with I. carnea, and after consuming the plant were averted with LiCl. The averted goats were transferred to Marajo Island and periodically observed over a 2 year period at 2-3 month intervals to determine if they were still averted. The averted goats did not ingest the plant while grazing in the pasture, whereas in 6 neighboring goat farms the prevalence of intoxication from I. carnea poisoning was estimated to be about 40%. These results demonstrated the efficacy of conditioned food aversion to avoid ingestion of I. carnea in formerly naïve goats that had only recently begun to ingest the plant.
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Conditioned food aversion to Ipomoea carnea var. fistulosa induced by Baccharis coridifolia in goats
(2013-08) ADRIEN DELGADO, María de Lourdes; CORREA, Gabriela Riet; OLIVEIRA JÚNIOR, Carlos Alberto de; PFISTER, James A.; COOK, Daniel; SOUZA, Elda Ely Gomes de; CORREA, Franklin Riet; SCHILD, Ana Lucia
Baccharis coridifolia is a plant that induces strong conditioned food aversion in ruminants. This research aimed to induce a conditioned food aversion to Ipomoea carnea var. fistulosa in goats, using B. coridifolia as an aversive agent, and to compare the aversion induced by this plant with the aversion induced by lithium chloride (LiCl). Thirteen goats were allotted into two groups: Group 1 with six goats was averted with 175mg/kg of body weight of LiCl and Group 2 with seven goats was averted with 0,25g/kg of bw of dried B. coridifolia. All goats were averted on day 1 after the ingestion of I. carnea. The aversion procedure with LiCl or B. coridifolia in goats from Groups 1 and 2, respectively, was repeated in those goats that again consumed the plant during tests on days 2, 3, and 7. The goats of both groups were challenged in pens on 23 and 38 days after the last day of aversion and challenged in the pasture on days 11, 15, 18, 20, 22, 25, 27 and 29 after the last day of aversion. After this period goats were challenged every 15 days on pasture until the 330º day after the last day of aversion (7th day). Two goats from Group 1 ingested I. carnea on the first day of the pasture challenge, 4 days after the last day of aversive conditioning in the pen. In addition, another goat in Group 1 started to consume the plant on day 18, and other two goats ate it on day 20. One goat in Group 1 that had never eaten I. carnea died on day 155. One goat from Group 2 started to ingest I. carnea on the first day of the pasture challenge, and a second goat started to consume this plant on day 182. At the end of the experiment, on day 330, the other five goats averted with B. coridifolia remained averted. These results suggest that B. coridifolia or an active compound from the plant could be used to induce aversion to toxic plants. Using B. coridifolia would be cheaper and, particularly in flocks with large number of animals, possibly easier than using LiCl, which requires the use of oral gavage and qualified personnel for its implementation.
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Estudo de genômica comparativa de corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis linhagem 226 (biovar ovis)
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-03-10) DIAS, Larissa Maranhão; CARNEIRO, Adriana Ribeiro; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7533716053525477; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7533716053525477
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is a gram-positive, facultative intracellular, non-sporulating and non-encapsulated bacterium, it is non-motile although it has fimbriae, and can assume coccoid or filamentous forms (pleomorphic). Its optimum growth temperature is 37°C. This pathogen has two biovars: ovis, which usually affects small ruminants and causes caseous lymphadenitis, and biovar equi, more common in equines, bovines, camelids and bubalines, causing ulcerative lymphangitis. Its infection can lead to carcass condemnation and reduction in wool production (in ovines and caprines), milk production and meat production and, consequently, economic losses for the agricultural industry worldwide. Currently there is no effective vaccine against those illnesses. To obtain a better understanding of these species biologically, the main objective of this work is to analyze, using comparative genomics, the strain C. pseudotuberculosis 226 biovar ovis, isolated from a caprine in California, comparing it to other strains from biovars ovis and equi. The synteny analysis revealed highly conserved gene order between strain 226 and other biovar ovis strains. Phylogenomic analyses showed that the strains I19 and 267 are, respectively, the closest and the more distant phylogenetically from strain 226. Among biovar equi strains, the one with the greater phylogenomic proximity to strain 226 was strain 1/06-A. Eight pathogenicity islands were predicted, with C. pseudotuberculosis best characterized virulence genes in literature being present in island 1. No new regions related to virulence genes could be found compared to other strains. 248 orthologous genes could be found between strains I19, 267 and 226, while 282 orthologous genes could be found between strains 258, 1/06-A and 226. Based in this study it is possible to assume that strains from biovar ovis have a little varied gene repertory and strains from biovar equi have less genes shared with strain 226, reinforcing the genetic diversity between these biovars.
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Estudo soroepidemiológico de Brucella abortus, Toxoplasma gondii e vírus da artrite encefalite caprina em rebanhos caprinos nas unidades produtoras dos estados do Pará e Maranhão
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2009-01-30) PIRES, Claudina Rita de Souza; DIAS, Hilma Lúcia Tavares; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4501155453484456
This study aimed at searching for the occurrence and frequency levels of the antibodies anti- Brucella abortus, Toxoplasma gondii and the Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis Virus (CAEV) in caprine from 14 distinct production units within the states of Pará and Maranhão. In the state of Pará, animals from the municipalities of Benevides, Castanhal, Santa Izabel do Pará and Moju have been analyzed, whereas in the state of Maranhão the study covered the municipality of Chapadinha. The serological tests accomplished with the purpose of diagnosing brucellosis disease were, the Buffered Acidified Plate Antigen test (BAPA), employed as triage test, and the 2-Mercaptoetanol (2-Me), as confirmatory test. For the toxoplasmosis analysis the Indirect Immunofluorescence Reaction (IIFR) and for CAEV the Agarose Gel Immunodiffusion (AGID) have been used respectively. The result of the brucellosis analysis has shown negativity in 100,0% of the studied samples. For toxoplasmosis and CAEV the respective incidences were 23,5% (97/412) and 21,6% (85/393). Statistical differences were observed in the relationship between anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies and the age of the caprines, showing that animals over 24-month old have undergone more risks of being infected when compared to animals at early ages OR=2,15 (IC95% 1,19 – 3,88). On the other hand, the risk factors found for CAEV were: lack of knowledge about the disease OR=6,45 (IC95% 2,88-14,47); the use of non - disposable materials, OR=10,85 (IC95% 4,85-24,28); the free-range farming system OR=10,85 (IC95% 4,85-24,28), the semi-extensive farming system OR=3,71 (IC95% 1,64-8,35) and handling procedures OR=11,4 (IC95% 5,51-23,60). It has been concluded that the caprine production units from Pará and Maranhão showed positive results for the studied diseases in their livestock.
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Feeding preferences of experienced and naïve goats and sheep for the toxic plant Ipomoea carnea subsp. fistulosa
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-09) OLIVEIRA JÚNIOR, Carlos Alberto de; CORREA, Gabriela Riet; LIMA, Everton Ferreira; LEITE, Danilo Maia; PFISTER, James A.; COOK, Daniel; CORREA, Franklin Riet
Ipomoea carnea is a toxic plant that grazing goats and cattle may learn to ingest with repeated exposure. The objective of this study was to evaluate the feeding preferences of experienced and non-experienced (naïve) goats and sheep for I. carnea. The study used 3 groups of 5 goats (Group 1, experienced that were previously poisoned by the plant; group 2, naïve; Group 3, experienced eaters, composed of animals adapted to eat the fresh plant) and 2 groups of sheep (group 4, experienced that were previously poisoned by the plant; and group 5, naïve). For the test, the animals were placed daily for 10 minutes and 4 days in a rectangular stall (5x7m) with 4 feeders, each with 200g of a different food (Ipomoea carnea, commercial concentrate food, recently harvested green grass (mainly Brachiaria spp.), and Cynodon dactylonhay. The intake of concentrate food was significantly higher (P<0.05) than the consumption of green grass, hay and I. carnea. In a second 4 day trial, in which the commercial concentrate food was replaced by freshly harvested Amorimia septentrionalis, the ingestion of green grass (Brachiaria spp.) was significantly higher (P<0.05) than the consumption of other foods. In both trials there was no significant difference in food consumption between eaters and naïve animals. The results suggest that experienced or naïve sheep and goats do not prefer I. carnea when it is offered with other foods or forages, suggesting that animals will avoid the plant and not become poisoned if other food options are available.
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Intoxicação natural e experimental por Metternichia princeps (Solanaceae) em caprinos
(2012-09) PRADO, Juliana da Silva; BRITO, Marilene de Farias; CALDAS, Saulo Andrade; YAMASAKI, Elise Miyuki; BARBOSA NETO, José Diomedes; MAIA, Diogo dos Santos; TOKARNIA, Carlos Maria Antônio Hubinger
From 2007 to 2009 a nephrotoxic disease of subacute course and high mortality in goats occurred on a farm in the county of Itaguaí, Rio de Janeiro. Metternichia princeps, a plant of the Solanaceae family, was suspected to be the cause. Through experiments in goats the clinical-pathological picture of poisoning by the plant and the lethal dose were established. For the experiments 12 young and adult goats of different races, both sexes and with weights above 15 kg were used. The goats that received 30g/kg in 5 days, 15g/kg in 3 days, single doses of 10g/kg and 5g/kg, all died. Of two goats that received single doses of 2.5g/kg, one died but the other did not show any clinical sign; a goat that received the single dose of 1.25g/kg also did not show any symptom of poisoning. First clinical signs were observed from 7 hours to 46h45min after the plant intake. The clinical course varied from 3h6min to 126h40min. First clinical signs were loss of appetite, adipsia, apathy and reluctance to move. After the animals entered in sternal decubitus and when they were placed in standing position, they kept their front limbs flexed, supported only by the posterior limbs on the floor until evolving into flexion of all four limbs followed by lateral decubitus. Postmortem examination revealed edema of the perirenal adipose tissue, pale kidneys which on the cut-surface showed whitish stripes from the cortex to the medullar area. At histopathology, severe coagulative necrosis of epithelial cells of the kidney tubules was seen. Compared with the natural cases, the goats experimentally poisoned by M. princeps, presented a similar clinic-pathological picture. By these experiments it could be proved that Metternichia princeps is the toxic plant that causes a nephrotoxic disease in goats in the Rio de Janeiro area; the minor lethal dose was 2,5g/kg in the experiments.
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Intoxicação por Ipomoea carnea subsp. fistulosa (Convolvulaceae) em caprinos na Ilha do Marajó, Pará
(2009-07) OLIVEIRA JÚNIOR, Carlos Alberto de; BARBOSA NETO, José Diomedes; DUARTE, Marcos Dutra; CERQUEIRA, Valíria Duarte; CORREA, Franklin Riet; TORTELLI, Fábio Py; RIVERO, Gabriela Riet Correa
Ipomoea carnea subsp. fistulosa is a swainsonine-containing plant causing a glycoprotein storage diseases in ruminants, mainly in goats in northeastern Brazil. Seven farms were visited on the Marajo Island, state of Pará, northern Brazil, six in the municipality of Cachoeira do Arari and one in the municipality of Soure. In all farms native pastures had shortage of forage and were largely invaded by I. carnea subsp. fistulosa. On the three farms goats presented difficulties in standing, ataxia, hypermetria, wide-based stance, lateral gait, intention tremors, spastic paresis or weakness, abnormal postural reactions, nystagmus, loss of equilibrium and falling to the side or backward. On two farms the prevalence was of 32% (23/71) and 100% (32/32). On another farm one goat out of 19 had severe clinical signs, but the others of the flock were not examined clinically. Cattle, sheep and buffaloes were not affected. Six goats were euthanized and necropsied. No gross lesions were observed. Upon histological examination the main lesion was the vacuolization of the perikaryon of neurons and cytoplasm of epithelial cells of thyroid, liver, kidney, pancreas and macrophages of different organs. In the central nervous system the vacuolization of the perikaria was more severe in Purkinje cells of the cerebellum and in nuclei of the brain stem, mainly the cerebellar nuclei. Wallerian degeneration of axons and gliosis was also observed. The high frequency of the disease on the three farms suggests that poisoning by I. carnea subsp. fistulosa is very important for goats on Marajó Island where there are large amounts of the plant in the pastures.
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Intoxicação por Ipomoea spp. em ruminantes na Ilha de Marajó
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2009-02-09) TORTELLI, Fábio Py; RIVERO, Gabriela Riet Correa; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7540534565167837
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Intoxicação por sal em ovinos e caprinos no estado do Pará
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2014-06-30) DUARTE, Marcos Dutra; BARBOSA NETO, José Diomedes; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1516707357889557
This paper reports the first outbreaks of salt poisoning in sheep and goats in Brazil on a farm in the state of Pará. The evaluation of the facilities and the handling indicates as predisposing factors the excessive intake of mineral mixture and water restriction. The first outbreak occurred in sheep, eight animals (1,46%) were affected from a total of 545 animals and four (50%) of them died. The second and third outbreaks occurred in a herd of 191 goats. In the second outbreak, four animals (2,09) were affected and none died. In the third outbreak, eight goats (4,19%) were affected and two (25%) of them died. In sheep the main clinical signs were recumbency, decrease or absence of cutaneous sensibility, absence of auricular, palpebral and menace reflexes, mydriasis, nystagmus, opisthotonus, spasticity of limbs, somnolence and stupor. Beside this signs observed there were bloat, diarrhea, tachypnea, tachycardia, dehydration and polyuria. The clinical course of the disease in sheep that died ranged from 2 and a half hours to 48 hours. The main clinical signs in the goats were muscle weakness, abnormal posture of the head and neck such us staying with his head down, head and neck rotation, neck extension and lateral deviation of the neck, sternal and lateral recumbency, mydriasis, absence of pupillary reflex to light, stay with pelvic and thoracic limbs abduced or in broad-based, increased flexor reflex, polyuria and intense thirst were observed. They were observed also rumen hypomotility, tachycardia, decreased skin turgor. The clinical course in goats of second outbreak varied from 4 to 24 hours. In the goats of third outbreak who died the evolution ranged by six to eight hours and two to three days in the goats who have recovered. The medium of serum concentration of sodium and potassium of 31 sheep from the same group affected on samples collected during the outbreak revealed hypernatremia (190 mEq/l) and hyperkalemia (8.2 mEq/l), respectively. The mean serum concentrations of sodium and potassium of 36 goats from the same lot of animals affected in the second outbreak in samples taken two days before the onset of clinical signs revealed hypernatremia (167 mEq/l) and the average level of potassium (4.7 mEq/l) within the reference values for the species. The averages of these same parameters in samples from goats in the third outbreak with clinical signs of intoxication (143,7 mEq/l for sodium and 3.9 mEq/l for potassium) were within the reference values. However, the averages of these same parameters in samples of goats in the third outbreak, with clinical signs of intoxication (143.7 mEq/l for sodium and 3.9 mEq/l for potassium), were within the reference values. At necropsy in only one of four sheep there was flattening of the cerebral gyri. Microscopically in this sheep there was a vacuolization of the neuropil in the cerebral cortex with moderate intensity in the intermediary surface and mild on the superficial, with increased of perineural and perivascular spaces. In these areas there was still markedly swollen nucleus of astrocytes and acute neuronal necrosis. Noteworthy macroscopic or microscopic changes were not observed in the goats. The dosages of sodium showed high values in the brain of the poisoning animals, in an ovine value of 3,513 ppm and in two goats, values of 3,703 and 3,675 ppm. Five goats of the third outbreak were treated with dexamethasone and thiamine, intramuscularly, twice daily for two days, and water was offered in small amounts three times a day. All treated animals were recovered in three days. The diagnosis of salt poisoning was based on epidemiology, clinical signs, in the lesions, in the dosages of sodium in serum and brain and in the response to treatment in five goats.
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Intoxicações experimental e natural por Ipomoea asarifolia (Convolvulaceae) em búfalos e outros ruminantes
(2005-12) BARBOSA NETO, José Diomedes; OLIVEIRA, Carlos Magno Chaves; DUARTE, Marcos Dutra; PEIXOTO, Paulo Fernando de Vargas; TOKARNIA, Carlos Maria Antônio Hubinger
Ipomoea asarifolia R. et Schult. is a plant responsible for occasional outbreaks of poisoning in cattle, sheep and goats. Its oral administration to cattle and buffalos showed that the buffalo is as susceptible as cattle. One to 4 daily doses of 10-20g/kg caused similar symptoms in both species, as incoordination, muscular twiching and swaying of the head and anterior part of the body (pendular movement). In buffaloes the signs of incoordination were observed to a smaller extent. There is no report yet on natural poisoning by I. asarifolia in buffaloes, possibly because cases are not being noticed.
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Sinais clínicos, lesões e alterações produtivas e reprodutivas em caprinos intoxicados por Ipomoea carnea subsp. fistulosa (Convolvulaceae) que deixaram de ingerir a planta
(2011-11) OLIVEIRA JÚNIOR, Carlos Alberto de; RIET, Franklin Correa; DUARTE, Marcos Dutra; CERQUEIRA, Valíria Duarte; ARAÚJO, Cláudio Vieira de; RIVERO, Gabriela Riet Correa
The aim of this research was to study the clinical signs, productive and reproductive performance, and lesions of goats poisoned by Ipomoea carnea subsp. fistulosa after removal from the paddocks where the plant occurred. Thirty seven goats were divided into four groups: Group 1 consisted of 14 goats with poor body conditions and mild to severe nervous signs, acquired from a farm where the plant occurred; Group 2 (control) consisted of 10 goats which had also poor body conditions, but were acquired from a farm where the plant did not occur; Group 3 consisted of two goats with clinical signs of intoxication and which were slaughtered on the farm where they became poisoned; Group 4 consisted of 11 goats slaughtered as controls for the study of gross and histological lesions. The animals from Group 1 and 2 were evaluated for a period of 12 months on a farm located in the municipality of Castanhal/Pará, in a paddock where the plant did not occur. Six months later, the animals of Group 1 continued with poor body condition, rough hair coat, and nervous signs, especially intention tremors, what became with time less noticeable. In the same period, the goats of Group 2 gained an average of 13 kg body weight. Goats from Group 1 showed to be more susceptible to gastrointestinal parasites than those from Group 2. From the eight goats of Group 1 remaining on the farm only 4 became pregnant and delivered three kids which died shortly after birth, while all goats from Group 2 got pregnant and delivered healthy kids. At necropsy, two goats from Group 1 showed cerebellar atrophy. The main histological change observed in animals of Groups 1 and 3 was a decreased number of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum. It is concluded that goats chronically intoxicated by I. carnea and which discontinued to ingest the plant but showed still clinical signs, even though diminished in intensity, had poor productive and reproductive performance and were highly susceptible to gastrointestinal parasites. For economical reasons, it is suggested that farmers cull affected animals which show still nervous signs 15 days after the end of I. carnea consumption. The most common permanent clinical signs are intention tremors, probably due to the loss of Purkinje cells, what could be primarily responsible for the malnutrition of the goats, the resulting reproductive failure and increased susceptibility to gastrointestinal parasites.