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Hypoglycaemia in experimental canine trichinellosis
D Reina1, M Habela, I Navarrete
1Department of Health and Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain.
Veterinary Parasitology
|October 1, 1989
Abstract:
This paper studies changes in serum glucose levels in dogs experimentally infected with Trichinella spiralis, and the histological causes of those changes. Hypoglycaemia is evident in 100% of experimental animals, and can be attributable to three factors: the reduced absorptive capacity of the intestine due to lesions (catarrhal and desquamative enteritis), high glucose consumption by parasites, or histopathological changes in the liver (glycogenic degeneration).