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Periódicos Brasileiros em Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia

p. 567-568

Parto prematuro em cadela com Leishmaniose Visceral: relato de caso

Evangelista, Luanna Soares De MeloSousa Filho, Marcos Antônio Celestino DeSouza, José Adalmir Torres De

This paper reports a Schnauzer breed bitch, two years and six months old, pregnant, who was diagnosedwith Visceral Leishmaniasis (LV), and its clinical and laboratory findings aggravated during pregnancy with theoccurrence of premature parturition at fifty days of coverage. It is worth mentioning that bitches with LV should beexcluded from reproduction because the disease may change the overall clinical picture of the animal and implicatethe development of the fetus, causing miscarriage or premature parturition with stillbirths.(AU)

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