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| Author(s): |
Adriana Pinheiro da Franca
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2010-04-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Nilson Roberti Benites;
Sonia Regina Pinheiro;
Eliana Roxo
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| Advisor: | Nilson Roberti Benites |
| Abstract | |
Until recently it was believed that caprine tuberculosis was a rare infirmity leading to the wrong agreement that these animals were resistant to Mycobacterium bovis. This study aims to: verify if there was inflammatory process of the mammary gland caused by mastitis agents or the presence of Mycobacterium; compare the frequency of isolation by the Zielh-Neelsen\'s test in the milk samples and fragments of caprine mammary gland tuberculin positive, verify if the lesions found in the mammary gland present similar frequency to the ones isolated by the Zielh-Neelsen´s test in tuberculin positive caprine. The animals used in this experiment came from an outbreak of tuberculosis in caprine that occurred in a property located at the city of Bueno Brandão (Minas Gerais), totalizing 68 animals affected. The results were obtained through the analysis of the Tamis and California Mastitis Tests in relation to the microbiologic exam of, both, mammary gland and milk. By the bacteriological isolation it was obtained 64 (98,46%) samples for Staphylococcus ssp and only 1 (1,54%) for Corynebacterium sp. Of the 64 (98,46%) identified milk samples, from the genus Staphylococcus ssp.. In the mammary gland, of the 6 isolations obtained all were Staphylococcus ssp.. With the results shown by the microbiological isolation of the mammary gland, it is possible to conclude that, independently of the species, the Staphylococcus ssp is the agent of greater frequency among those which were isolated, being the major responsible for the caprine intramammary mastitis. Of the 116 milk samples cultured in the Stonebrink and Löwenstein-Jensem tubes, were isolated 5 (4,31%) milk Zielh-Neelsen positive samples. Of 60 mammary gland fragmentes cultured, in total, in the Stonebrink and Löwenstein-Jensem media, it was isolated only 1 tube in the Stonebrink medium, accomplishing a frequency of 1 (1,66%) samples of mammary gland, which indicates that it was M. bovis. This conclusion was possible because the Stonebrink medium is a way of selection to its growth, used to isolate the M. bovis. Of the 60 mammary gland fragments which were submitted to the histopathological analysis by the coloration of hematoyilin-eosin and Zielh-Neelsen and that showed mammary gland lesions of caprine tuberculin positive, 7 (11,66%) of the lesions were caused by M. bovis in the mammary gland, and 18 (30,00%) underwent repair process. By the histological analysis of the 60 mammary gland fragments, all presented inflammatory process in the interstitial region of the gland, which indicates cronic mastitis. Of 30 lung fragments, in total, sent to the histopathological diagnostic, it were submitted to hematoxylin-eosin (HE) and Zielh-Neelsen (ZN) colorations, 4 (13,33%) lesions typical tuberculosis lesions. From the results shown above, it is possible to conclude that: the inflammatory process of the mammary gland was not associated to the presence of Staphylococcus ssp (predominant microorganism of the positive culture) but in fact to the drying stage of the animals; from the results of the ZN test in the milk and positive mammary gland fragments, it is possible to use any of the methods to verify the isolation frequency of microorganism turberculin positive animals; the frequency of granulomatosus process in the mammary gland of the studied animals were statistically similar, in ZN tests frenquency in milk as much as the ZN tests\' in the gland fragments, however when considering the frequency of repair with the frequency of the ZN tests in the milk and in the gland fragments there was significant differences, and so, the process frequency in the mammary gland of tuberculin positive animals is greater than the frequency of the ZN tests in the milk and in the mammary gland. (AU) | |