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[Imported coenurosis in sheep].
- Source :
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Schweizer Archiv fur Tierheilkunde [Schweiz Arch Tierheilkd] 2006 Sep; Vol. 148 (9), pp. 490-9. - Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- Thirteen sheep from a milk producing farm in the Canton of Grisons that presented chronic coenurosis were examined and subjected to treatment trials at the veterinary hospital in Zurich. Symptoms were first observed around two months after the import of two dogs from Italy (Abruzza) of which one was infected with Taenia multiceps and Echinococcus granulosus. The most frequently observed clinical symptoms of the sheep were reduced general condition, circling, reduced menace reflex, apathy, unsteady gait and head tilt. Analyses of cerebrospinal fluid revealed an increased leucocyte count in 3 sheep and eosinophilia in 4 sheep. In 4 animals that underwent computertomography, one or more hypodense, definable lesions were found in the brain. In 2 sheep surgical treatment and in 10 animals medical treatment with either Praziquantel (n=8) or Oxfendazol (n=2) was attempted. Only one animal treated with Praziquantel needed not to be euthanized. At necropsy, one or two coenurus cysts could be found either in a side ventricle (n=2), in the cerebellum (n=3) or in the cerebrum (n=7). The locations corresponded with the clinical findings. Despite Praziquantel or Oxfendazol treatment, living protoscoleces could be found in the parasite cysts.
- Subjects :
- Animals
Benzimidazoles therapeutic use
Brain parasitology
Brain pathology
Brain Diseases drug therapy
Brain Diseases parasitology
Brain Diseases surgery
Cestode Infections drug therapy
Cestode Infections surgery
Cestode Infections transmission
Cysticercosis drug therapy
Cysticercosis surgery
Cysticercosis transmission
Cysticercosis veterinary
Disease Outbreaks veterinary
Disease Reservoirs veterinary
Dog Diseases transmission
Dogs
Echinococcosis drug therapy
Echinococcosis surgery
Echinococcosis veterinary
Female
Italy
Praziquantel therapeutic use
Prognosis
Sheep
Sheep Diseases epidemiology
Sheep Diseases parasitology
Switzerland epidemiology
Taenia
Treatment Outcome
Anthelmintics therapeutic use
Brain Diseases veterinary
Cestode Infections veterinary
Sheep Diseases drug therapy
Sheep Diseases surgery
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Details
- Language :
- German
- ISSN :
- 0036-7281
- Volume :
- 148
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Schweizer Archiv fur Tierheilkunde
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 17024978
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1024/0036-7281.148.9.490