Determination of copper and leukocyte content in blood of bovines with papillomatosis treated with copper plus an immune booster

Abstract

The research was carried out at the Hungria farm located 25 km from Concordia, Jinotega department, where a comparative descriptive study was applied with the objective of determining the content of serum copper and leukocytes in the blood of bovines treated with copper earrings subjected to six weeks of treatment, the study groups were divided into two, a group of nine animals treated with a tag and nine animals without applying a tag, considered a control or reference group to compare independent samples. The variables evaluated were the concentration of ceruplasmin oxidase (serum copper), % of neutrophils, % of lymphocytes, % monocytes, % of eosinophils and recurrence of papillomatous warts, which underwent a t-test analysis for related samples and independent samples using the SPSS version 20 statistical system, showing that the ceruplasmin oxidase variable for animals treated with copper earring showed a significant difference p˃0.05 compared to before and after treatment, as in the test analysis for independent samples in animals treated with earring and without earring there was a significant difference p˃0.05, instead the variables % of lymphocytes, monocytes and eosinophils did not show a significant difference p˃0.05, concluding that the animals treated with copper earring suffered a change from hypocuprosis to normocupremia according to the means reflected in the descriptive analysis , instead the leukocytes underwent transformation it is pathological, as is the case with an increase in monocytes and a decrease in eosinophils and neutrophils.