Treatment of septic tenosynovitis in buffaloes: a clinical, haematobiochemical and microbial study

Septic tenosynovitis lead to significantly increased rectal temperature, swelling and severe pain at the affected site, which reduced gradually after institution of therapy. The haematological parameters did not show any significant change except for neutrophilia. Before treatment the colour and consistency of synovial fluid changed with high quantity of flocculant materials, which became near normal after treatment. In synovial effusions significantly lower values of mucin precipitate quality, lymphocyte, glucose, and albumin-globulin ratio were recorded in all the cases, which gradually increased during post-treatment periods, whereas, significantly higher values of total leukocyte count, neutrophils, total proteins and synovial fluid enzymes viz. aspartate and alanine amino transferase, alkaline and acid phosphatase and lactate dehydrogenase were observed before treatment in all the animals, which reduced gradually towards normal values after treatment. On microbial isolation coagulase positive Staphylococcus sp. was found in all the 10 samples along with Streptococcus sp. and E. coli. They showed maximum sensitivity for gentamicin.