Hematologic profile of dogs with demodectic mange treated at the veterinary hospital of Patos – Paraíba

Abstract

Canine demodicyosis is a parasitic skin problem commonly found in dogs caused by the proliferation of follicular mites of the Demodex canis species. Clinical laboratory tests in young dogs with demodicides usually do not show consistent abnormalities, however, such abnormalities do appear in such chronic diseases as anemia, with elevations in leukocyte numbers, hyperglobulinemia, and depressed thyroid hormone concentrations, which are found in many dogs. We analyzed the hemogram of 36 dogs diagnosed with demodectic mange that were treated at the Veterinary Hospital of the Federal University of Campina Grande, in the municipality of Patos. Among hematological changes, thrombocytopenia (40.9%), anemia (68.2%), neutrophilia (27.3%), eosinophilia (27.3%) and lymphopenia (36.4%) were found to be more prevalent. We can conclude that all the animals of the present study had alterations in some aspect of the hematological profile.