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Dermatophytosis – Update On Diagnosis And Therapy
S. Paterson
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The World Association of Veterinary Dermatology has recently commissioned clinical practice guidelines on dermatophytosis. These updates on diagnosis and therapy are taken from that paper which has been published as an open access paper in Veterinary Dermatology, a link to which can be found on the WAVD website (Moriello K.A. et al., 2017).
DIAGNOSIS OF DERMATOPHYTOSIS
Diagnostic tests in cases of dermatophytosis should have two principal aims. The first should be to confirm as accurately and as quickly as possible that active infection is present in order to make an informed decision about therapy, i.e. treat or not treat, euthanase or quarantine? The second should be to establish that the infection has been successfully treated i.e. the animal poses no infection risk and that the animal is cured? In order to make a diagnosis a range of complementary diagnostic tests should be employed which includes Wood’s lamp of infected material; direct examination of hairs to document active infection; dermatophyte culture by toothbrush technique to diagnose fungal species involved and monitor response to therapy and biopsy with special fungal stains for nodular or atypical infections. ...
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