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How many cattle can be infected by Trypanosoma vivax by reusing the same needle and syringe, and what is the viability time of this protozoan in injectable veterinary products?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2021

Rubens Dias de Melo Junior ,
Thiago Souza Azeredo Bastos ,
Luciana Maffini Heller ,
Luiz Fellipe Monteiro Couto ,
Dina María Beltrán Zapa ,
Alliny Souza de Assis Cavalcante ,
Leonardo Bueno Cruvinel ,
João Eduardo Nicaretta ,
Haryie Victória Iuasse  and
Lorena Lopes Ferreira Open the ORCID record for Lorena Lopes Ferreira [Opens in a new window]
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Rubens Dias de Melo Junior
Affiliation:
Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Thiago Souza Azeredo Bastos
Affiliation:
Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Luciana Maffini Heller
Affiliation:
Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Luiz Fellipe Monteiro Couto
Affiliation:
Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Dina María Beltrán Zapa
Affiliation:
Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Alliny Souza de Assis Cavalcante
Affiliation:
Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Leonardo Bueno Cruvinel
Affiliation:
Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
João Eduardo Nicaretta
Affiliation:
Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Haryie Victória Iuasse
Affiliation:
Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Lorena Lopes Ferreira
Affiliation:
Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, Escola de Veterinária, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Vando Edésio Soares
Affiliation:
Universidade Brasil, Descalvado, São Paulo, Brazil
Guilherme Rocha Lino de Souza
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Fabiano Antônio Cadioli
Affiliation:
Departamento de Clínica, Cirurgia e Reprodução Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade Estadual Paulista – Unesp, Araçatuba, Brazil
Welber Daniel Zanetti Lopes*
Affiliation:
Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil Departamento de Biociências e Tecnologia, Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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Author for correspondence: Welber Daniel Zanetti Lopes, E-mail: wdzlopes@hotmail.com
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Abstract

It was investigated how many cattle become infected with Trypanosoma vivax by subcutaneous (SC), intramuscular (IM) and intravenous (IV) routes, using the same syringe and needle from an animal with acute T. vivax infection. Besides, the T. vivax viability in 109 injectable veterinary drugs (antibiotics, antiparasitics, reproductive hormones, vitamin complex and derivatives, vaccines, anaesthetics, anti-inflammatory/antipyretics, antitoxics). In the field assay, four groups were performed: T01, T02 and T03 animals that received saline solution with the same syringe and needle contaminated with T. vivax via SC, IM and IV routes, respectively, and T04 control animals that received only saline solution with the same syringe and needle IV. In the laboratory, drugs had their pH measured and T. vivax viability verified. The number of cattle infected with T. vivax via SC (3/20) was lower (P ≤ 0.05) compared to via IM (9/20), which was lower (P ≤ 0.05) compared to IV (15/20). The solution pH did not influence T. vivax viability. In 44% (48/109) of the products, T. vivax remained viable regardless of time, stooding out that in 100% of oxytocins the protozoan was verified, at some evaluation times. The mean of T. vivax quantified in foot-and-mouth and brucellosis vaccines and in doramectin-based products were higher (P ≤ 0.05) than found in blood + saline solution.

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Dairy cattle dairy cattleiatrogenic transmissiontrypanosomosis

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Parasitology , Volume 149 , Issue 2 , February 2022 , pp. 270 - 282
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