Propuesta de protocolo para vigilancia para Brucelosis canina.

Abstract

Canine Brucellosis is a contagious and widely distributed disease worldwide In this document a proposal for a Protocol for Canine Brucellosis Surveillance is presented, which shows, from the literature review, a content adjusted to other surveillance protocols presenting the concepts, definitions and standardized procedures to be applied by professionals in the health area with interference in the diagnosis, treatment, control, monitoring or surveillance of this event. Considering that in Colombia there is no surveillance protocol for events in dogs, with this proposal we want to fill this void of unified information or contained under the figure of a single document called protocol. For a protocol to be operational, that is, to be applied in real conditions and to fulfill its objective of controlling the event and its outcomes, it must be prepared by a transdisciplinary group of experts, reviewed by peers, socialized, and finally approved for its implementation. in the health system. Due to these conditions, the document prepared, in this case as a degree project, is just a protocol proposal. This protocol is directed in the first instance to veterinarians, general practitioners and support staff in veterinary clinics, however, the real benefit is for animals or people who receive diagnosis treatment based on the recommendations given in this protocol proposal (for example , patients with a medical history of contact with potentially disease-bearing animals that also present clinical signs compatible with it, as well as subjects who are involved in any of the following occupations with risk of exposure such as veterinarians, farmers or caregivers in contact with mainly domestic animals, people who handle animal products and by-products such as mill workers, meat vendors, milkers, and people involved in dairy manufactures or l; laboratory personnel in contact with clinical samples.