Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Juvenile boxer dog with polyarthritis from visceral leishmaniasis
By Santos, Marta et al.·Published in Veterinary parasitology·2006·ICBAS - Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Polyarthritis associated with visceral leishmaniasis in a juvenile dog.
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Plain-English summary
An 8-month-old male boxer was brought to the vet with lameness, fever, and swollen lymph nodes. Tests revealed he had canine visceral leishmaniasis, a serious disease caused by a parasite. The vet treated him with a combination of medications, including meglumine antimoniate, aminosidine, and allopurinol. Fortunately, the treatment was successful, and the dog showed improvement.
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Abstract
Canine visceral leishmaniasis (CL) is a zoonosis and a chronic systemic disease characterized by a wide spectrum of clinical signs, including, in rare occasions, polyarthritis. This report describes a case of CL in an 8-month old male boxer dog with a history of lameness, fever and lymphadenopathy. A definitive diagnosis of CL was based on the observation of the Leishmania amastigotes seen concomitantly, and for the first time, in the lymph nodes aspiration smears (in macrophages), synovial fluid (in macrophages and neutrophils) and blood (in neutrophils). Despite this extensive dissemination of the parasite, the animal was successfully treated with a multi-step combination of meglumine antimoniate, aminosidine and allopurinol.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16824686/