Giardioza zoonosis

Hello, we have a one-year home German Shepherd, which is a little thin and suffering from recurring issue of diarrhea. Our vet said that it may suffer from giardiozou, and that the disease can transmit to our children. We therefore ask you, what it is, what are the giardioza signs of the disease, how to cure a disease, and how can we prevent future disease.

Intestinal diseases, Giardioza is which is due to the jednobunecnym prvokem Giardii. This is zoonozu, which means that the disease can be transmitted from animals to humans. In humans it is the most common intestinal parasite giardia. Infection occurs in dogs pozrenim trials giardie, which are from the bench to another infected animal. To infection, so there is a direct and indirect contact with an infected individual. After oral ingestion of parasite, its propagation occurs in the intestines mucous membranes and to the clinical manifestations of disease, most commonly presented diarrhoea. Treatment of the patient depends on the correct diagnosis and in the corresponding procedure has good disease prognozu.

What is Giardia?

Giardia is a single-celled prvok, who lives in the intestine of dogs, cats, livestock, wild animals and humans. Giardia is present in two forms. Active and mobile form, that is causing the infection is called trofozoit. ' Form is called a cyst. Cyst on its surface resistant cover, which protects it from adverse conditions in the external environment, and therefore Giardia can survive outside the host for months.

What are the symptoms of giardiasis?

Symptoms are more prominent in young, or imunokompromitovanych animals. Patients present with sudden, transient, and chronic diarrhea. Other observed symptoms, how animals and people, include napinky to the vomiting, anorexia, bloating and pain of the abdominal cavity. Giardia affects in particular the absorption of fats, and therefore is the bench often Pasty and fatty, foul smells and contains increased amounts of mucus.

That the animals are infected with Giardii?

Many species of animals can be infected with Giardii. Between these species susceptible include dog and cat. Susceptibility to infection is individual and is influenced by age, imunokompetenci, stress, and population density of susceptible individuals. If you are in contact with the infection, up to 50% of the exposed baby, enough of the intestinal infection. The infection rate is also higher in places with a high concentration of dogs, such as asylum, different breeding and training facilities and urban parks. Almost 100% of dogs from shelters exposed to infection, giardii, enough of the active infection due to the massive exposure to the source of the infection.

How is Giardia spread?

Even the most common source of infection are surface water sources, giardia prefers cold and damp environment. In adverse conditions creates the rest form of Giardia, cyst, which can survive in the external environment for months to years. Giardia is nalezana in contaminated food, contaminated surface waters, in the stool, and in all what is contaminated with infectious bench and water. Transmission of infection is possible only fekalne-oral route. Giardie is not a portable blood.

How giardioza diagnoses?

To diagnose a direct licence Giardioza in stool sick animal. Diagnosis is difficult, due to the irregular and low excretion of giardie bench. Giardioza usually very often poddiagnostikovanym disease or lecena is like any other disease the intestinal tract. For these reasons, many suffering from canine patients chronically nelecenym diseases and become the source of infection for their environment, including humans. Relatively reliable modern method becomes a direct demonstration of parasite DNA in stool by using PCR. This test is, fortunately, already on the reference health workplaces in the Czech Republic available.

What is the treatment of giardiozy?

Cure should all dogs with clinical manifestations of disease. In families with small children, it is recommended to treat animals, which are clinically healthy, but they are using diagnostic tests, proven to be carriers of the disease. Usually used for the treatment of metronidazole, which is a safe drug with minimal adverse effects. By using the metronidazolu, can cure up to 70% of infected individuals. Efficiently fenbendazole, which specifies the rate of successful treatment, around 90% of individuals. The decision on the length and type of treatment is always on the specialized veterinary doctors. In terms of the licence, the Elimination of the infection, are doporucitelna repeated diagnostic examination (examination of faeces samples,PCR diagnostics), since the number of infected animals in inadequate treatment, goes into chronic forms of the infection, which leads to the long-term decline of the animal.

Disinfection of an infected environment

Since the cysts survive in the long term and easily Giardie in the external environment, it is necessary a thorough cleaning and disinfection of polluted environment. Appropriate is a bath and vysamponovat all susceptible animals in farming. All susceptible animals in the affected farming is recommended, healing adequate treatment against giardoze. Since giardioza zoonosis, it is necessary to ensure increased caution and hygiene in the treatment of affected animals.

What is the possible disease prevention?

One of the most common sources of infection is surface water, so don't drink their dogs from free sources of water and wear them to a safe drinking water, always from a certified water source. Cysts may be present even in a small pond and other water tanks, so it is doporucitelne the dogs always after bathing in the pond at home, wash and vysamponovat. Animals moving more in the wild, or in places with a high concentration of susceptible animals to giardioze, it is recommended the periodic examination of faeces samples of fresh faeces (ideally every 3mesice). In the event of repeated or long-term diarrhea, it is always appropriate to locate the specialist veterinarian who the possible infection of Giardii excluded.

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