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PESQUISA VETERINARIA BRASILEIRA
Volume 32, Issue 8, Pages 739-742Publisher
REVISTA PESQUISA VETERINARIA BRASILEIRA
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-736X2012000800010
Keywords
Abortion; sheep; Neospora caninum
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- Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) [Proc.480671/2009-5]
- Fundacao de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento do Ensino, Ciencia e Tecnologia do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul (Fundect) [Proc.23/200.226/2010]
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Pinto A. P., Bacha F. B., Santos B. S., Driemeier D., Antoniassi N.A.B., Ribas N.L.K.S. & Lemos R. A. A. 2012. Sheep abortion associated with Neospora caninum in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Pesquisa Veterinaria Brasileira 32(8): 739-742. Departamento de Patologia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS 79074-460, Brazil. E-mail: lap. famez@ufms.br Canids are the main hosts of Neospora caninum, but cattle, (sheep, goats and horses may serve as intermediary hosts. N. caninum infection of pregnant intermediary hosts may provoke abortion and neonatal infections. This study is the first to report lamb abortion associated with N. caninum in Mato Grosso do Sul. Epidemiological data were obtained from interviews with sheep producers. For microscopic examination, fragments of different organs removed from 4 sheep fetuses, aborted and necropsied, were fixed in 10% formaldehyde, embedded in paraffin and subjected to the hematoxylin-eosin staining protocol and immunohistochemistry (IHC) to test for N. caninum and Toxoplasma gondii. The abortion outbreak studied was reported from a herd of 268 Santa Ines sheep (including 186 pregnant ewes), with 10 abortion cases in the last third of gestation. Four fetuses were examined, 3 from a same ewe. At necropsy, one fetus exhibited crackling in the lung and all its organs were reddish. Histological findings detected mononuclear cell in filtrates among myocardium fibers and around blood vessels, in addition to circular structures with basophilic points resembling protozoans. IHC tests revealed strongly positive staining for N. caninum and weakly positive for T. gondii, characterizing N. caninum infection.
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