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A hot spot, or acute moist dermatitis, is an acutely inflamed and infected area of skin irritation created and made worse by a dog licking and biting at itself. A hot spot can manifest and spread rapidly in a matter of hours, as secondary Staphylococcus infection causes the top layers of the skin to break down and pus becomes trapped in the hair.
The sclera, like the cornea, contains a basal endothelium, above which there is the lamina fusca, containing a high count of pigment cells. [6] Sometimes, very small gray-blue spots can appear on the sclera, a harmless condition called scleral melanocytosis.
The disease in dogs can affect the lungs and skin, but more commonly the eye and central nervous system. [20] Ringworm is a fungal skin disease that in dogs is caused by Microsporum canis (70%), Microsporum gypseum (20%), and Trichophyton mentagrophytes (10%). Typical signs in dogs include hair loss and scaly skin. [21]
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Other skin conditions like alopecia areata, lichen planus, and atopic dermatitis can also cause white spots on the nails, Dr. Camp adds. White spots on nails treatments Protect your nails
Adam Christman, DVM posted a video on Monday, March 11th about the 5 most overlooked spots that pet owners miss when looking for ticks on their pets, and one of them really surprised me.
Leucism (/ ˈ l uː s ɪ z əm,-k ɪ z-/) [2] [3] [4] is a wide variety of conditions that result in partial loss of pigmentation in an animal—causing white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales, or cuticles, but not the eyes. [4] It is occasionally spelled leukism.
Domestic dogs in Belgium showed a mean prevalence of T. canis of 4.4%, those from larger kennels of up to 31%. [6] In domestic dogs in Serbia, T. canis was detectable in 30% of the animals, [7] in herding and hunting dogs in Greece in 12.8% and T. leonina in 0.7% of animals. [8]
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