Barrett’s Disease and Helicobacter Spp. Detection in Dogs with Gastritis

Simonetta Appino^1*, Paola Pregel², Mitzy Mauthe Von Degerfeld² and Ada Rota²

¹Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Sassari, Italy

²Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Università di Torino, Italy

*Corresponding Author : Simonetta Appino
Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria, Università di Sassari via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Tel: +39 079229468
E-mail: simo@uniss.it

Received: September 22, 2017 Accepted: October 14, 2017 Published: October 18, 2017

Citation: Appino S, Pregel P, Degerfeld MMV, Rota A (2017) Barrett’s Disease and Helicobacter spp. Detection in Dogs with Gastritis. J Vet Sci Med Diagn 6:5. doi: 10.4172/2325-9590.1000241

Barrett’s disease (BE) is a metaplastic disorder of the esophageal mucosa in which specialized columnar epithelium replaces healthy squamous epithelium; it is the most common cause of esophageal carcinoma in humans. The dog has been used as a model of Barrett’s esophagus, although the pathology is very rare in the species. In man, infection with Helicobacter pylori resulted inversely associated with BE. The role of Helicobacter spp. in dogs gastritis has not been fully elucidated, as in esophageal disease. Aim of this work was to evaluate esophageal and gastric biopsies of symptomatic dogs in association with the isolation of Helicobacter spp. and to describe and discuss a case of BE.