ENTHEROPATHIES IN BOVINE YOUTH

Roxana Lazăr, M. Lazăr, P.C. Boişteanu

Abstract
   Gastroenteropathies in bovine youth has a large incidence in households. These disorders are characterized by loss of appetite, diarrhea, weight loss, dehydration of the body leading to disorders of the body's homeostasis.
   The pathogenesis of these disorders is explained by a series of disturbances in the intestine, metabolic acidosis, dehydration of the body due to the loss of. electrolytes. The blood may be affected by hemoconcentration, hematocrit increase and false polyglobulum. Leukopenia followed by leukocytosis is observed in the first phase of the disease. The leukocyte formula has a neutrophilic character especially when the first symptoms appear and then, in the convalescence phase, lymphocytes are produced.
   The research was carried out on a 3-9-month-old bovine youth group grown in a farm in northern Moldavia region. The total number of erythrocytes, the hemoglobin concentration, hematocrit, total white blood cells and blood levels were determined. Blood samples were drawn from the jugular vein into vacutainer tubes on EDTA support.
   Based on the obtained results we may say that the bovine youth suffering from gastroenteritis presents a microcytic and hypochromic anaemia.

Key words: calves, hemoleucogram (CBC), enteropathies