Fauna Parasitológica em Animais Domésticos e Exóticos no município de Mossoró-RN

Abstract

Infectious and parasitic diseases continue according to the World Organization of Health, to represent among the main death causes, being responsible for two to three million of death humans a year, all over the world. In the Northeast area, located in a area of extraction of salt of Rio Grande do Norte, it is the municipal district of Mossoró, presenting semi-arid climate, with defined climatic stations, a drought and other rainy one, favoring the development of parasitism among animals. She gave way, it arrives at the Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitologia of the UFERSA for diagnosis parasitological, as much of domestic animals as of exotic of interest in the regional agricultural business. In that purpose, evaluation of the data was accomplished regarding the routine from 02.2002 to the 05.2004, whose diagnosis techniques proceeded to the characteristics of the request. He/she enrolled 73% of the exams coming from dogs, 10% of cats, 8.5% of horses and 8% of exotic animals. The found positividade index was: in dogs, 14% for Demodex canis, 5% Sarcoptes scabiei, 1% Psoroptes sp, 39% Ancylostoma sp, 16% Toxocara canis and 11%: Giardia, Entamoeba, Cystoisospora canis and Dipylidium caninum; in cats 20% for Notoedres cati, 15% S. scabiei, 5% Demodex sp, 40% Ancylostoma sp and 20% Toxocara cati; in horses 71% for Strongylus sp and 20% Parascaris equorum; in the exotic animals they were registered: eggs of the family Strongyloidea, Giardia, Balantidium, Pulex irritans, Riphicephalus microplus, Mallophagos and Amblyomma rotundatum. A biodiversity of parasites was observed in the domestic and exotic animals that you/they cohabit in the area of the municipal district of Mossoró, demonstrating that control measures should be taken.