¿Bovine besnoitiosis: present in colombia?
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2011
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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista
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Bovine besnoitiosis has recently been classed as a
re-emerging disease in Western and Central Europe, due to a recent increase in reported cases and a
geographic expansion of the disease in cattle herds
in continental Europe. The disease has been present in some parts of France, Spain and Portugal
for many years, a fact which may be an indicative
of the disease’s expansion, and it is important to
know about it because it has a lot of similar lessons
if compared with diseases we have in Colombia. The
infection can cause serious adverse effects, both during the acute and the chronic phases that could compromise animal welfare. Bovine besnoitiosis has two
distinct sequential clinical stages, namely the acute
anasarca stage, which is mainly associated with the
proliferation of endozoites in blood vessels, and the
chronic scleroderma stage, which is mainly associated with the formation of cysts. The severity of the
disease may vary between mild and severe, with possible deaths in seriously affected animals. Many infected animals remain asymptomatic and the only sign
of the disease is the presence of cysts in the sclera
conjunctiva and/or the vulvae area in cows.
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Besnoitiosis, Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, Hiperqueratosis, Esclerodermia, Besnoitia besnoiti, Anasarca, Besnoitiosis bovina, Enfermedades - Ganado vacuno, Europa - Enfermedades - Ganado vacuno