Longitudinal study of bovine rotavirus group A in newborn calves from vaccinated and unvaccinated dairy herds.

Reports of rotavirus excretion in calves usually result from cross-sectional studies, and in face of the conflicting results regarding protection of calves born to vaccinated dams against diarrhea, the aim of the present study was to evaluate rotavirus excretion in dairy calves born to vaccinated or unvaccinated dams, to identify the genotypes of bovine rotavirus group A (RVA) strains isolated from these animals as well as to investigate characteristics of the disease in naturally occurring circumstances throughout the first month of life. Five hundred fifty-two fecal samples were taken from 56 calves, 28 from each farm and, in the vaccinated herd, 11/281 samples (3.91%) taken from six different calves tested positive for RVA while in the unvaccinated herd, 3/271 samples (1.11%) taken from 3 different calves tested positive. The genotyping of the VP7 genes showed 91.2% nucleotide sequence identity to G6 genotype (NCDV strain), and for the VP4 gene, strains from the vaccinated herd were 96.6% related to B223 strain, while strains from the unvaccinated herd were 88% related to P[5] genotype (UK strain). Genotypes found in this study were G6P[11] in the vaccinated herd and G6P[5] in the unvaccinated herd. All calves infected with rotavirus presented an episode of diarrhea in the first month of life, and the discrepancy between the genotypes found in the commercial vaccine (G6P[1] and G10P[11]) and the rotavirus strains circulating in both vaccinated and unvaccinated herds show the importance of keeping constant surveillance in order to avoid potential causes of vaccination failure.

Atresia anal, fístula uretrorretal congênita, bolsa escrotal acessória e pseudo-hermafroditismo em bezerro mestiço / Anal atresia, congenital urethrorectal fistula, accessory scrotum and pseudohermafroditism in a crossbred calf

Neste trabalho, é descrito o caso de um bezerro mestiço recém-nascido que apresentava atresia anal tipo 2, fístula uretrorretal congênita, bolsa escrotal bífida e pseudo-hermafroditismo masculino. O principal sinal clínico era a eliminação de fezes por meio do óstio prepucial, uma apresentação incomum em casos de fístula uretrorretal em animais machos. Apesar de o quadro de atresia anal ser relativamente comum nessa espécie, os outros defeitos congênitos encontrados são pouco frequentes.

In this study, the case of a newborn calf, which presented type 2 anal atresia, congenital urethrorectal fistula, bifid scrotum and male pseudohermafroditism is described. The main clinical sign was the elimination of feces by the prepucial ostium, an unusual finding in cases of urethrorectal fistula in male animals. Although anal atresia is relatively common in bovines, the other congenital defects found in this case are uncommon.

Mammary adenocarcinoma in a mare

A non-lactating 17-year-old grey barren Mangalarga Marchador mare was referred to the Large Animal Veterinary Hospital of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), presenting enlargement of the mammary gland. The owner reported that the animal had a lesion in the mammary gland for at least two years, diagnosed and treated as chronic mastitis. Initially only the right gland was involved, presenting ulceration and exudation on the cutaneous surface. After 20 months, the left gland also became affected. The diagnosis of tubulo-papillary adenocarcinoma was based on the typical microscopic lesions. This work shows the importance of the histopathological examination in the differential diagnosis between the neoplasms and the chronic inflammation in the mammary gland of mares, as well as, to show that the cytological examination cannot detect the tumor, in case the puncture is made in areas of secondary infection.

Uma égua tordilha, Mangalarga Marchador, de 17 anos, não-lactante e não-prenhe, foi encaminhada ao Hospital de Grandes Animais da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, com histórico de mastite crônica há dois anos. No início da lesão, apenas a glândula mamária direita estava muito aumentada, com exsudação sero-hemorrágica e ulcerada. Após 20 meses, a mama esquerda também estava comprometida. A égua foi tratada para mastite crônica, porém o exame histopatológico revelou tratar-se de um adenocarcinoma túbulo-papilar. Este trabalho evidencia a importância do exame histopatológico no diagnóstico diferencial entre neoplasias e inflamação crônica da mama de éguas, uma vez que o exame citopatológico pode não detectar o tumor, quando a punção é feita em áreas de infecção secundária.

Fístulas e outras anomalias congênitas dos tratos digestivo e urinário em um potro / Fistulae and other congenital anomalies of the urinary and digestive tract in a colt

Descrevem-se fístulas uretrorretal, vesicorretal, uretroperianal, retoperianal e cecorretal congênitas em um potro de três meses que eliminava urina em jatos pela uretra peniana, pelo ânus e pelas quatro fístulas. A necropsia, a bexiga encontrava-se aderida ao peritônio, ao íleo, ao ceco e à musculatura da parede abdominal e estava repleta de fezes e exsudato caseoso. Adicionalmente, observaram-se persistência do úraco, uretrite supurativa e dilatação da uretra pélvica, com formação de saco cego ventral. Este tipo de malformação ainda não havia sido descrito em eqüinos no Brasil.

A three month-old Mangalarga Marchador colt, that eliminated urine in jets through the penian urethra, anus and through four fistulae in the perianal area. Post-mortem examination revealed that the fistulae communicated the pelvic urethra and the bladder to the rectum and the rectum and the pelvic urethra to the perianal area. Additionally, there were cecorectal fistula, persistence of the urachus and dilatation of the pelvic urethra, with a ventral blind sack. The bladder was filled with caseous exudate and feces and showed adherences with the peritonium, ileum and cecum, as well as with the muscles of the abdominal wall. This malformation type still had not been described in equine in Brazil.