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Year 2010 - Volume 30, Number 11
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Clinic-pathological and immunohistochemical aspects of equids infected with rabies virus, 30(11):909-914
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ABSTRACT.- Pedroso P.M.O., Colodel E.M., Gomes D.C., Varaschin M.S., Bezerra Júnior P.S., Barbosa J.D., Tokarnia C.H. & Driemeier D. 2010. [Clinic-pathological and immunohistochemical aspects of equids infected with rabies virus.] Aspectos clínico-patológicos e imuno-histoquímicos de equídeos infectados pelo vírus da raiva. Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 30(11):909-914. Setor de Patologia Veterinária, Faculdade de Veterinária, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9090, Porto Alegre, RS 91540-000, Brazil. E-mail: davetpat@ufrgs.br
Thirteen horses and one mule from four regions of Brazil with clinical and histological diagnosis of rabies were analyzed. The clinical course lasted four days, with motor incoordination, paresis and paralysis of the legs, and decubitus. The main histopathological findings were lymphoplasmacytic meningoencephalitis and non-suppurative meningomyelitis associated with characteristic Negri bodies in 64.28% (9/14) cases, mainly in the cervical spinal cord and in Purkinje neurons of the cerebellum. In 55.55% (5/9), the animals examined were positive by for the fluorescent antibody test for rabies. All animals were positive in immunohistochemistry for rabies, whose immunolabeling were more evident in the temporal cortex, occipital cortex and cervical spinal cord. Immunohistochemistry procedure was essential to confirm all cases of rabies in the equids. |
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