Piotórax felino por Klebisiella spp. – Relato de caso: Feline pyothorax by Klebisiella spp. - Case report

Piotórax ou empiema torácico, é definido como o acúmulo de exsudato purulento no espaço pleural. Estima-se que 80% dos casos de piotórax em felinos sejam causados por infecções por bactérias anaeróbias obrigatórias e ou aeróbias. Disseminação hematogênica ou linfática, inoculação direta através de uma ferida de mordida penetrante, migração parasitária, disseminação parapneumônica e migração de corpo estranho são as possíveis condições nas quais os felinos desenvolvem a doença. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi descrever as características clínicas, radiográficas e citológicas de um caso de piotórax felino. Foi atendido um felino, macho, PCB, de 5 anos de idade, com queixa principal de prostração e anorexia. No exame físico o animal apresentava-se dispneico. Foi realizado análise hematológica que revelou leucocitose com neutrofilia e desvio a esquerda regenerativo. No raio X observou-se aumento da radiopacidade homogênea da porção cranial e média da cavidade torácica com conteúdo de radiopacidade de água no espaço pleural e obliteração dos limites da silhueta cardíaca. Foi realizada toracocentese e no exame citológico da amostra havia grande quantidade de neutrófilos degenerados, com macrófagos e bactérias fagocitadas. O diagnóstico de piotórax nesse caso baseou-se nas alterações radiográficas, que indicaram efusão pleural; no exame citológico e na cultura do fluido obtido na toracocentese. O diagnóstico de piotórax em pequenos animais é geralmente direto e deve ser considerado em qualquer paciente que apresente exame clínico indicativo de doença do espaço pleural. Os exames de imagem torácicos podem ser utilizados para dar suporte ao diagnóstico de derrame pleural; porém, o exame citológico ou cultura do líquido pleural são necessários para o diagnóstico definitivo da doença

a multicenter study

(1) Background: The Commercial Kit SIRE Nitratase® PlastLabor, is a drug susceptibility test kit used to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to first-line TB treatment drugs. The present study aimed at evaluating its performance in a multicenter study. (2) Methods: To determine its accuracy, the proportion methods in Lowenstein Jensen medium or the BACTECTMMGITTM960 system was used as a gold standard. (3) Results: The study revealed that the respective accuracies of the kit with 190 M. tuberculosis clinical isolates, using the proportion methods in Lowenstein Jensen medium or BACTECTMMGITTM960 system as a gold standard, were 93.9% and 94.6%, 96.9% and 94.6%, 98.0% and 97.8%, and 98.0% and 98.9%, for streptomycin, isoniazid, rifampicin, and ethambutol, respectively. (4) Conclusion: Thus, the kit can rapidly screen resistance to streptomycin, isoniazid, rifampicin, and ethambutol. Additionally, it does not require sophisticated equipment; hence, it can be easily used in the laboratories of low and middle income countries.publishersversionpublishe

Educomunicação, Transformação Social e Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Esta publicação apresenta os principais trabalhos dos GTs do II Congresso Internacional de Comunicação e Educação nos temas Transformação social, com os artigos que abordam principalmente Educomunicação e/ou Mídia-Educação, no contexto de políticas de diversidade, inclusão e equidade; e, em Desenvolvimento Sustentável os artigos que abordam os avanços da relação comunicação/educação no contexto da educação ambiental e desenvolvimento sustentável

ATLANTIC EPIPHYTES: a data set of vascular and non-vascular epiphyte plants and lichens from the Atlantic Forest

Epiphytes are hyper-diverse and one of the frequently undervalued life forms in plant surveys and biodiversity inventories. Epiphytes of the Atlantic Forest, one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, have high endemism and radiated recently in the Pliocene. We aimed to (1) compile an extensive Atlantic Forest data set on vascular, non-vascular plants (including hemiepiphytes), and lichen epiphyte species occurrence and abundance; (2) describe the epiphyte distribution in the Atlantic Forest, in order to indicate future sampling efforts. Our work presents the first epiphyte data set with information on abundance and occurrence of epiphyte phorophyte species. All data compiled here come from three main sources provided by the authors: published sources (comprising peer-reviewed articles, books, and theses), unpublished data, and herbarium data. We compiled a data set composed of 2,095 species, from 89,270 holo/hemiepiphyte records, in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, recorded from 1824 to early 2018. Most of the records were from qualitative data (occurrence only, 88%), well distributed throughout the Atlantic Forest. For quantitative records, the most common sampling method was individual trees (71%), followed by plot sampling (19%), and transect sampling (10%). Angiosperms (81%) were the most frequently registered group, and Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae were the families with the greatest number of records (27,272 and 21,945, respectively). Ferns and Lycophytes presented fewer records than Angiosperms, and Polypodiaceae were the most recorded family, and more concentrated in the Southern and Southeastern regions. Data on non-vascular plants and lichens were scarce, with a few disjunct records concentrated in the Northeastern region of the Atlantic Forest. For all non-vascular plant records, Lejeuneaceae, a family of liverworts, was the most recorded family. We hope that our effort to organize scattered epiphyte data help advance the knowledge of epiphyte ecology, as well as our understanding of macroecological and biogeographical patterns in the Atlantic Forest. No copyright restrictions are associated with the data set. Please cite this Ecology Data Paper if the data are used in publication and teaching events. © 2019 The Authors. Ecology © 2019 The Ecological Society of Americ

Resistência anti-helmíntica em nematoides gastrintestinais de ovinos

Objetivou-se verificar a existência de resistência anti-helmíntica a ivermectina e albendazol em nematoides gastrintestinais de ovinos em propriedades dos municípios de Janaúba e Nova Porteirinha. O experimento foi conduzido em 4 propriedades e foram utilizados 88 animais. Nas fazendas (A e B), testou-se o anti-helmíntico ivermectina e nas fazendas (C e D), ivermectina e albendazol. A redução na contagem de ovos por grama de fezes (RCOF) foi determinada utilizando fórmula específica, indicando resistência com índice menor a 95%. Houve resistência dos nematoides gastrintestinais ao albendazol nas duas propriedades em que foi testado e a ivermectina em três das quatro propriedades. Na fazenda C, a ivermectina apresentou-se eficácia de 97%. O nematoide de maior prevalência foi o Haemonchus contortus

Meat cuts and non-carcass of sheep finished on pasture with different levels of supplementation

This study aimed to evaluate the yield of meat cuts and other body components of sheep kept on pasture Panicum maximum, Massai cultivar, fed increasing amounts of concentrate. The animals were divided into four treatments according to the concentrate intake in relation to body weight (zero, 0.7, 1.4 and 2.1%). After slaughter of the sheep, the weights of non-hollow viscera (tongue, lung, liver, diaphragm, kidney and spleen), hollow ones (trachea, esophagus, heart, gallbladder, bladder, rumen, omasum, abomasum, small and larger intestines), other components (blood, skin, feet, head, tail and mammary gland) and fat in the viscera (omental, mesenteric, perirenal and cavity). In carcasses, the commercial cuts were made (shoulder, ribs, loin, leg, and neck). The cuts except the neck, did not alter their weights, however, there were changes in their proportions. Only the percentage of loin did not change. With the intake of 1.42% in concentrate for body weight, there was an increase of ribs over the leg. The total weight of the non-carcass did not change, however, there was variations in its proportion. Amongst the most noticeable changes is the amount of visceral fat, which greatly increased when the sheep ingested 1.35% in concentrate for body weight. Therefore, concentrate intake by culling ewes does not increase mass commercial cuts. The proportions of commercial cuts and other body constituents change diffusely. With the maturity has been reached, the observed weight gain is, in most cases, result of increased visceral fat