Dermatophilosis is a contagious zoonotic skin disease with wide host range and most commonly affects cattle, sheep and horse. The principal causative agent is Dermatophilus congolensis which is a member of the aerobic actinomycete. Dermatophilosis has worldwide distribution and the disease is reported most frequently in relatively low altitude areas with tropical and subtropical climates with h...

The association of fleece characters with susceptibility to dermatophilosis was studied in two flocks located on the south coast of Western Australia. The characters examined were wax content, suint content, wax to suint ratio, suint pH, yield, fleece wettability, fibre diameter, coefficient of fibre diameter variation, suint direct extract, direct extract pH and electrical conductivity. The re...

Lumpy wool (dermatophilosis) develops following prolonged wetting of sheep when bacterial proliferation in and on skin induce an exudative dermatitis, causing a superficial lesion damage to follicles fibres. The incidence dermatophilosis is strongly dependent wet warm weather and, hence, infection sporadic. While older animals are less at risk than lambs, it unclear whether this reflects natura...

INTRODUCTION Ovine dermatophilosis, commonly called ‘dermo’ or ‘lumpy wool’, is an acute or subacute, chronic exudative dermatitis of sheep of all age groups. It causes economic loss to producers through lowered production, lowered wool value, treatment costs, poor-quality skins, restriction of management options such as shearing and death in severe cases. It is caused by a bacterium, Dermatoph...

A total of 727 samples (148 cattle, 579 buffalo) were examined for the presence of Dermatophilus congolensis using conventional microbiological techniques and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) during the period from June 2010 to May 2011. Dermatophilosis was identified in 109 samples (14.99%) by direct microscopic examination, isolation and PCR from skin scrapings, crusts, scabs and plucked hair....

This study describes interesting preliminary results on the therapeutic effects of ointments prepared with extracts of medicinal plants on bovine dermatophilosis. Our results show that the use of ointments made with ethanolic extracts of leaves of Senna alata, Lantana camara and Mitracarpus scaber, as topical treatments on chronic crusty or acute lesions of dermatophilosis, induces healing of t...

Dermatophilosis is one of the major economically important diseases of cattle in Nigeria. Managing the condition has been very challenging and re-occurrence has been reported with moderate to high morbidity and mortality. The incidence and biochemical features of cattle with dermatophilosis was conducted in June to December 2016 across the four geopolitical zones of Oyo state, Nigeria. Clinical...

A severe outbreak of dermatophilosis occurred in 1985 in a herd of Brahman cows imported from Martinique in Guadeloupe in July 1983. Little was known on this disease in Guadeloupe until then, for the local zebu breed is naturally highly resistant to diseases transmitted by ticks or associated with them. Conditions of appearance and development of the disease were studied in relation with herd m...

Natural dermatophilosis (caused by Dermatophilus congolensis Van Saceghem, 1915) has only recently been described in camels (Camelus dromedarius). Further work has shown that the disease is actually widespread. At the Ol Maisor farm where it was first diagnosed (in the Laikipia district of northern Kenya), detailed investigations have revealed that thirty camels (ten calves and twenty adult ani...