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Factors that influence
- Sanitation cage unfavorable.
- Cage too humid with high temperatures.
- Lack of vitamins and minerals that the skin susceptible to fungus and itching.
- Heredity, where short-haired dogs are more susceptible to the fungus.
- Dogs that are infected fleas and ticks are more susceptible to fungal attack.
- Disorders of hair growth will be the trigger fungal attack.
- Wounds or abrasions due to fighting, a tick bite wounds, will be the trigger for this fungal disease.
- The period of hair dressing for too long will also cause fungal disease attack.
Mode of transmission
- Direct contact with fungal spores.
- A puppy's urine soaked susceptible to fungus.
- When the fur loss, where hair growth is rather late, is a cause for fungal invasion.
Clinical symptoms
- First look no fur loss in an area, rounded shape.
- Itching appeared in the infected area.
- Area of infection redness and then thickened. The color changed to dark.
- Areas that are susceptible to the face and ears for infection are the result of direct contact with a sick dog.
- The spheres began scaly infected with an unpleasant smell.
- If accompanied by secondary infections will occur ulcers and bleeding.
- Attacks on the skin will spread throughout the body.
- Each of the affected area will itch and the heat that makes the dog became agitated.
- Decreased appetite and erratic, sometimes do not want to eat because I was busy scratching. Sometimes the itching is accompanied by fever.
Prevention
- Dogs must be frequently washed with a special shampoo or soap antifungal sulfur.
- Avoid frequent dog cage exchange.
- Provide vitamins and minerals that are not easily occur in skin and coat disorders.
Treatment
- Before bathed dogs should be treated first with sulfur soap.
- Apply to the affected area tinctures jodium fungus.
- Provide sufficient vitamins and minerals to improve skin condition.
- Quickly provide vitamins and minerals specifically for hair growth to be secure and not easily attacked by fungal diseases.
- The drug is most appropriate for a particular antibiotic fungus called Griseofulvin.
