USO DE Aloe barbadensis miller (ALOE VERA) POR VIA ... - Ibero Vet

Summary.
The dermatophytes are infections produced by fungi of the filamentous type, these
affections that affect men and animals are known popularly as "tineas" that name
comes from Greek "moth" because the injury that it generates is similar to the holes
that do moth in the clothes.
The causal agents of the dermatophytes are: Microsporum sp.; Trichophyton sp. and
Epidermophyton sp.; and some of then are: Microsporum canis; Trichophyton
mentagrophytes and Microsporum gygseun.
The Anti-bacterial, a possible property anti- mycotics and the teasue healing
properties Aloe vera was the reason why use studies tudy Aloe vera to the elaboration
ofterapeutic agent against dermatophytosis, which is an importan pathologi in
Veterinary Medicine.
30 dogs positive Dermatophyte Test Médium (DTM) y to direct microscopy to
dermatophytos where treated over 60 day with a topic solution of Aloe vera, and they
was clinicaly controlled every 15 days (a whole of 4) and microbilogically at 30, 60
and 30 days after the treatment finished like postreatment control.
A satisfactory clinical evolution we have in all the cases. The 66% of the cases,
showing a complete sheling of their injuries, and in 34% rest the diminution of them.
Only in 26,6 % of the cases we eliminate the causal agent, and in the cases of
asociations of agents we manage to eliminate one of them, reason thus, the percentage
of elimination of the causal agents is low.
The study of Aloe vera in Veterinary Medicine have great importance for the
development of new pharmaceutical products, this work was a colaboration between
it the Veterinary Medicine Faculty and the Department of Basic Sciences.
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