What is sporobiasis? Symptoms and prevention measures of sporobiasis

Sporidiopathy is a disease caused by canine sucking air containing coccidioids in humans. Clinically, cough, body temperature rise, dyspnea and chronic diarrhea are characterized by cough.

【Pathogen】The pathogen of this disease is Coccidioidae. The bacteria exist in soil or deserts at very low altitudes, forming filamentous separating myceliums in nature, producing chain arthrospores.

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The infection route of this disease is that the dog sucks the dust mixed with the bacteria and causes infection.

【Symptoms】The sick dog has depression, loss of appetite, increased body temperature, and symptoms of cough, vomiting, chronic diarrhea and weight loss. In addition, granuloma occurs in the lungs, bronchial and mediastinal lymph nodes, which spread to the pleura, liver and kidneys, which in turn leads to pleuritis, hepatitis and nephritis. When invading the joints, the sick dog will limp or develop symptoms of muscle atrophy. The course of the disease is long and usually takes 2 to 5 months. Some cases will turn out well.

【Pathological changes】

According to the autopsy of the sick dog, it can be seen that the lungs are granulomas and are thin, there are obvious inflammations in the pleura, liver and kidneys, joints are lame and muscle atrophy.

[Diagnosis] In addition to the clinical symptoms and pathological changes of this disease, it must also be diagnosed in the laboratory, that is, microscopic examination of the disease material, or intradermal tests with coccidioidin, or chest X-ray transmission, or serum complement binding tests, agar diffusion tests, etc. before the final method can be made.

【Prevention and Control Measures】

Treatment and prevention can refer to measures and methods for histoplasmosis.