Impact of haemorrhagic gastroenteritis on canine total leucocyte count and differential leucocyte count

Haemorrhagic gastroenteritis (HGE) is caused by viruses, bacteria, endo-parasites and even by food allergy as well as irritant drugs. Clinical signs include fever, vomiting and severe bloody and foetid diarrhoea with marked dehydration. Present study was conducted to evaluate alterations in total leucocyte count (TLC) and differential leucocyte count (DC) in twenty six dogs, out of which thirteen dogs were naturally infected with haemorrhagic gastroenteritis and the rest were treated as control. The haematological parameters were screened by standardized procedure to stratify the difference between two groups. The analysis of diseased dogs revealed low values of total leucocyte count. Neutropenia with lymphocytosis were also observed in parvo infected canines. However, no significant difference was noticed in mean values of monocyte, eosinophil. There may be very few basophils, which was not noticed in this present study in healthy and gastroenteritis infected dogs.