Diagnóstico da tuberculose em búfalos

Abstract

Two groups of buffaloes were previously sensibiblizados M. bovis and inactivated after 60 days were inoculated bovine PPD. In September a group of animals were inoculated in the cervical and scapular averages on both sides of the animals, measuring the skin fold was carried out on days 0,24, 48, 72, 96 and 120h. There was no significant difference between the sides and the peak response occurs at 77.9 h. In group 2, 16 animals were inoculated in the cervical (CE), scapular (ES), costal (CO), hindquarter (QT) and caudal (CD), in the highest upper, middle and bottom making the home side 23 inoculations . The analysis showed no significant difference between the heights ladosm between inoculation and between regions ES, CO, CT, which were higher than the EC and CD. In the state of Para, 1061 buffalo were being tuberculin than 128 were killed Anuma the retropharyngeal lymph nodes, mediastinal and mesenteric lesions suggestive of tuberculosis and examined bacreriologicamente. 7 samples were isolated from M. bovis and 13 samples microbacteria fast-growing (MCR). Analysis shows that the criteria for interpretation of tuberculinixação in buffaloes must be appropriate to species and suggested that the criteria are superior to those established for cattle. MRC infection in water buffaloes and the number of properties with animals infected with M. bovis and frequent in Para