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How are equine skin diseases categorised?

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Infections or non-infectious

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List infectious equine skin diseases

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  • ectoparasite (infestation)
  • dermatophilosis
  • folliculitis
  • fungal (dermatophytosis)
  • viral (aural plaques)
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Non-infectious skin diseases

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  • allergies
  • immune-mediated
  • endocrinopathies
  • miscellaneous
  • neoplastic
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What ectoparasites can affect horses?

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  • Chorioptes spp
  • Psoroptes spp
  • Neotrombicula autumnalis, Demanyssus gallinae
  • RARE: scabies, demodex
  • Ticks, lice, fleas, flies
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Where are chorioptes found?

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limbs and tail (pastern dermatitis)

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Where are Psoroptes spp found?

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head and ears

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What causes equine chorioptic mange?

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Chorioptes bovis, especially feathered horses

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CS - chorioptic mange

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pruritus, erythema, crusts, papules,

- peaks in WINTER

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Tx - chorioptic mange

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  • challenging, often recurrent
  • clipping (especially feathered)
  • fipronil spray (repeat after 1 month)
  • avermectins (controversial efficacy)
  • permethrins/pyrethroids - flumethrin is acaricidal
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CS - lice infestation

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pruritus variable, very host specific

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Tx - lice infestation

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  • fipronil spray (2tx, 10 days apart)
  • synthetic pyrethroids
  • systemic ivermectin
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Dx - lice infestation

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ID parasites

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How can flies be a problem to horses?

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  • bites and stings
  • hypersensitivity (culicoides - sweet itch)
  • larvae (myasis)
  • disease transmission (Habronemiasis, Ochocerchiasis)
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What fly species can affect horses?

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  • Tabanus (horse fly)
  • Stomoxys (stable fly)
  • haematobia spp
  • Muscids
  • Culicoides spp
  • Hyrotea spp.
  • Hippobosca equina
  • Simulium spp.
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What causes itchy bottom?

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Pinworm infestation (oxyuriasis): Oxyuris equi adult worms migrate from terminal parts of intestines out of anus to lay eggs –> tail rubbing, self-trauma around tail base, restlessness

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Dx - pinworm infestatin

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  • handheld lens OR

- acetate tape and microscope to ID eggs

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Tx - pinworm infestation

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anthelmintics

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What is the commonest skin allergy in horses?

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sweet itch / culicoides bite hypersensitivity

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CS - sweet itch

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  • seasonal pruritus
  • excoriations
  • alopecia
  • SECONDARY LESIONS: papules, crusts, skin thickening, alopecia (primary lesions not well described)
  • Dorsal or ventral midline
  • restlessness and weight loss
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2 forms of sweet itch

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  • dorsal distributed - commonest

- ventral biting Culicoides

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Where is sweet itch common?

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  • culicoides spp regions
  • wet fields, little wind
  • animals > 6 months
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Ddx - sweet itch

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  • Oxyuris equi
  • other insects
  • other allergies
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Dx - sweet itch

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  • clinic
  • midges
  • (intradermal/ serology testing of little value since they only indicate exposure)
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Management - sweet itch

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  1. ) AVOIDANCE - stable 4pm-8am, rugs and hoods, fans, fly screens and traps, windy, dry grazing
  2. ) REPELLANTS AND LONG TERM INSECTICIDES: synthetic pyrethroids (cypermethrin, flumethrin, deltamethrin. Frequent administration essential)
  3. ) ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES/ANTI-PRURITIC - antihistamines and GCs (severe)
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What bacteria infect equine skin?
- Staphylococci - Dermatophilus congolensis - Many others
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How are equine bacterial skin infections diagnosed?
As in small animals - cytology (pathognomic railroad tracks seen)
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What type of bacteria is Dermatophilus?
branching filamentous actinomycete mainly affects ruminants and horses varied clinical presentations
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Describe Dermatphilus congolensis in cattle.
significant economic importance in central and west affrica - severe form in cattle infested by Amblyomma variegatum tick
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What is Dermatophilus associated with in temperate climes?
moisture and skin trauma
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Colloquial names - Dermatophilosis
Fleece rot - sheep Mud fever - horses (also mud rash, greasy heal, pastern folliculitis) Rain scald - horses
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Where on the body is mud fever common?
lower limb very common --> irritation, foot stamping, chewing. Often chronic with scarring + secondary lesions
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What does papillomavirus infection cause in horses?
aural plaques
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Describe aural plaques
- hyperkeratotic plaques - concave aspect of pinnae - common - not self-limiting (as other spp) - yearling + - Simulium spp as vectors - Tx = observation (doesn't bother)
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What causes equine ringworm ?
- Trichophyton equinum var equinum - T. mentagrophytes - M. equinum - M. gypseum
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Describe ringworm
- Healthy host - spontaneous resolution in 5-6 wks - can be pruritic - unsightly
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Dx - ringworm
- same as smallies - CS - patchy alopecia, easy epilation, hair stands on tufts - NOT wood's lamp - hair pluck and coat brush --> fungal culture
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Tx - ringworm
- Nothing licensed - topical (griseofulvin, potassium iodide) - isolation - - hygiene
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List 4 horse allergies
- Culicoides hypersensitivity - Food - AD - (Contact hypersensitivity)
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List equine immune-mediated/ autoimmune diseases - 5
- PF - Erythema multiforme (not a diagnosis but an inflammation pattern) - ADRs - Vasculitis including purpura haemorrhagica - including purpura haemorrhagica (also not a diagnosis but an inflammation pattern) - Alopecia areata
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What may erythema multiforme look like?
urticaria (differentiate by histopath. also urticaria should pit on pressure then return to original shape slowly. Eryhthema multiorme conditions can be pressed down but 'pop back up quickly' when pressure is released.
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Causes of vasculitis and erythema multiforme
- ADR - infection - neoplasia
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Define PPID
= pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction = cushing's disease
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CS - PPID/Cushing's
* hirsutism - laminitis - secondary infections - supraorbital fat deposits - hyperhydrosis
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Tx - PPID/ Cushing's - 2
- pergolide - controls ACTH output | - trilostane - stops production of cortisol in adrenals
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What is systemic granulomatous disease/ chronic eosinophilic enteritis?
- RARE, dramatic disease - skin + GIT involved - both grave prognosis - aka Equine sarcoidosis (nothing to do with sarcoids) - aetiology unknown
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Tx - systemic granulomatous disease/ chronic eosinophilic enteritis
- change feed | - systemic GC (months)
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Prognosis - systemic granulomatous disease/ chronic eosinophilic enteritis
grave (spontaneous recovery described)
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Skin signs - systemic granulomatous disease/ chronic eosinophilic enteritis
exfoliative dermatitis = generalised scaling. often crusting, alopecia or nodules
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Systemic signs - systemic granulomatous disease/ chronic eosinophilic enteritis
- severe wasting - fever - lymphadenopathy - icterus - diarrhoea
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Diagnosis - systemic granulomatous disease/ chronic eosinophilic enteritis
- hx - cs - leukocytosis - anaemia * abnormal liver/ kidney function - skin histopath - organ biopsy = granulomatous +/- eosinophils
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What test should you always perform in cases of unexplained pruritus in horses?
Liver and kidney function (in systemic granulomatous disease/ chronic eosinophilic enteritis these results will be abnormal)
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3 factors required for photosensitisation
UV + poorly pigmented skin + photodynamic agent in skin
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Types of photosensitisation
- PRIMARY - St. John's wort ingestion | - SECONDARY - liver problem and phylloerythrin
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What happens in leucocytoclastic vasculitis?
accumulation of WVCs around BV wall --> BV destruction
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CS - leucocytoclastic vasculitis
- nonpigmented lower limbs | - acute onset erythema, oozing, crusting, painf
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Dx - leucocytoclastic vasculitis
biopsy (good sedation because pain)
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Tx - leucocytoclastic vasculitis
High dose immunosuppressive therapy
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3 categories of nodular disease
- STERILE (often harmless) - MICROBIAL/PARASITIC - NEOPLASTIC
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List sterile nodular diseases
- collagenolytic granuloma - cutaneous mastocytosis - axillary nodular necrosis - unilateral papillomatosis
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List 4 microbial /parasitic nodular diseases
- Botryomycosis - Habronemiasis - Dermatophilosis - Dermatophytosis
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Describe collagenolytic granuloma
- aetiology unknown - saddle area, neck, flanks - spring and summer mostly - single/ multiple dermal lesions, firm, well circumscribed - variable diameter - NOT alopecic, ulcerative, painful, pruritis - Chronic - lesion mineralisation
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Hx - collagenolytic granuloma
- age - speed of onset - season - recent tx - systemic disease
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Diagnostics - collagenolytic granuloma
- fungal and bacterial culture - FNA cytology - often histopath (definitive diagnosis)
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Ddx - collagenolytic granuloma
THIS IS NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST!: - hypoermiasis - papular dermatitis - staph folliculitis and furunculosis - dermatophytosis - dermatophilosis - neoplasia - calcinosis circumscripta - cutaneous amyloidosis
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Tx - collagenolytic granuloma
- leave alone - Sx excision (single/few lesions - GCs (systemic, intralesional or sub-lesional injections
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Prognsosis - collagenolytic granuloma
- may resolve spontaneously - recurrence common - GCs probably ineffective in later stages after mineralisation - Tx unlikely to produce permanent cure
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Name the 6 types of equine sarcoid
- occult - nodular - verrucous - malevolent - mixed - fibroblastic
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Ddx - occult sarcoid
- dermatophytosis | - burn trauma
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Ddx - nodular sarcocid
- fibroma - melanoma - collagenolytic granuloma - warble fly cysts
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Ddx - verrucous sarcoid
- papillomatosis - chronic sweet itch - SCC
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Ddx - fibroblastic sarcoid
- GT - botryomycosis - habronemiasis - neurofibroma - SCC
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Ddx - mixed sarcoid
- easy to recognise - GT - habronemiasis
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Ddx- malevolent sarcoid
- lymphangitis - glanders - lymphosarcoma - SC mycosis

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