Therapeutic management of anemia due to trypanosomosis in dogs

Abstract

Trypanosomosis is a haemoprotozoan disease of domestic and wild animals, spread by tabanid flies bites. The disease generally causes fever, anemia, myocarditis, corneal opacity and it is a fatal disease in canines [1]. Now a day’s many numbers of trypanosomacidal drugs are available including suramin, quinapyramine and diminazene. But, a single dose of the drug is not effective for horses, mules and dogs since diminazene aceturate neither crosses the blood-brain barrier nor insufficient doses were unable to control the T. evansi infection [2,3]. Present communication; put a record on the therapeutic efficacy of two doses of diminazene aceturate injections to treat dogs with T. evansi infection.