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Describe Dermatophilosis in terms of: Etiology Species affected Transmission and pathogenesis Clinical signs Diagnosis Treatment and control.

      

Describe Dermatophilosis in terms of:
Etiology
Species affected
Transmission and pathogenesis
Clinical signs
Diagnosis
Treatment and control.

  

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Kavungya
etiology,
Dermatophilus congolensis

Species affected
Many domestic livestock

Transmission and pathogenesis
To establish infection, the infective zoospores must reach a skin site where the normal protective barriers are reduced or deficient. The respiratory efflux of low concentrations of carbon dioxide from the skin attracts the motile zoospores to susceptible areas on the skin surface. Zoospores germinate to produce hyphae, which penetrate into the living epidermis and subsequently spread in all directions from the initial focus. Hyphal penetration causes an acute inflammatory reaction

Clinical signs
Lumpy wool and skin lesions

Diagnosis
Clinical signs +laboratory tests

Treatment and control
Antibiotics+
Control-Isolating clinically affected animals, culling affected animals, and controlling ectoparasites are methods used to break the infective cycle
Kavungya answered the question on May 6, 2019 at 13:02


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