Epidemiologic survey of zoonoses of major confirmation at slaughter houses. II. Bovine.

Abstract

The analysis of post-mortem examination data of 1.495.976 bovine carcasses, proceeding from breeding municipalities of six Brazilian states and that had been slaughtered and processed by slaughter houses placed in the state of São Paulo (Brazil), provided the following information: 1. The tuberculosis, cysticercosis and hydatidosis were the diseases of most frequent ocurrence; 2. The wide scattering of these zoonoses in those states considered in this study was confirmed by their presence in all six states. The distribution of these diseases according to the 611 municipalities traced in this study, was as follows: thetuberculosis occurred in 367, the cysticercosis in 574 and hydatydosis in 254 municipalities, and 31 municipalities there was no registration of any of these three diseases in the animals that came from their herds, 180 municipalities registered only one disease, while 185 with two, and 215 municipalities were concurrent to the three diseases; 3. The information collected by the meat inspection service, concerned to the detection of pathologic lesions, can provide useful aids, especially in guiding and choosing the priorities for the adoption of sanitary measures by the Public Health and the Animal Health Authorities.