Percepção de médicos veterinários na inspeção de bovinos para identificação de tuberculose e investigação de exposição ocupacional no estado de Santa Catarina

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Masiero, Angela
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Mycobacterium; Zoonose; Inspeção
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.animaeducacao.com.br/handle/ANIMA/3103

Introduction: Bovine tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis is a disease with great economic and social impact. It is a chronic disease with difficult diagnosis,which favors the perpetuation of the agent in the herd and the transmission to humans. The ante and post mortem inspection in slaughterhouses has the purpose of identifying animals suspecting to have tuberculosis and ensuring safe products to human consumption. Objective: To analyze the perception of veterinarians in the slaughterhouses inspection services from Santa Catarina State. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study where an electronic questionnaire was applield to veterinarians who work in the meat inspection services across Santa Catarina State. To assess the level of knowledge, a score the questions werw about the professional perception regarding the tuberculosis diagnosis and the answers for each question were scored as insufficient knowledge, medium level and high level of knowledge . Results: 43 veterinarians participated in this study, with a mean age of 38 years (SD ± 9 years), mostly female (60.47%), average training time of 13 years (SD ± 8 years), with specialization (55.81%), acting in beef cattle inspection and buffaloes (58.14%), near Tubarão Region (34.88%). Most professionals (95.35%) had a medium level of knowledge, in ante-mortem inspection they failed in recognize clinical signs characteristic of tuberculosis in cattle and in post-mortem inspection, they failed again in recognize the main affected organs and which organs should be inspected in case of a suspect of infection. Among the participants, 6.98% showed symptoms characteristic of the disease, without confirmation of the diagnosis and 39.53% showed interest in performing the tuberculin skin test. Conclusion: The medium level of knowledge of veterinary medical professionals can compromise the recognition of this disease. The lack of interest in performing the tuberculin skin test suggests the lack of recognition of tuberculosis as a zoonosis by veterinary medical professionals.