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[![Pemphigus foliaceous - Equine dermatology](/thumbnails/10650-280-210-Crop.jpg)](/files/10650.jpg "Pemphigus foliaceous - Equine dermatology")

				
[![Dermatophilosis - Equine dermatology](/thumbnails/10489-280-210-Crop.jpg)](/files/10489.jpg "Dermatophilosis - Equine dermatology")

				
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Horses and donkeys very frequently present skin diseases that justify a precise diagnosis and an adapted treatment.  
Among the most common equine dermatoses one observes:

- Allergies to insects (culicoïdes or summer scabies), to mites, moulds or pollens (atopy) and more rarely, to food...
- Bacterial infections (staphylococcus, dermatophilus...), fungal infections (dermatophytosis or ringworm)...
- Parasitic dermatoses: lice, chorioptic mange (foot scabies), etc.
- Cutaneous tumours: equine sarcoids, carcinomas, melanomas, papillomas (warts)...
- Skin nodules: eosinophilic nodules, infectious nodules (abscesses)...
- Pigmentary anomalies: vitiligo...
- Immune diseases: pemphigus foliaceus...

The diagnosis is based, as for all skin diseases, on a detailed clinical and dermatological examination. This will enable us to choose the complementary examinations to be used:

- microscopic examinations (skin scrapings, cytology...)
- skin biopsies
- bacterial or fungal culture
- intradermal test...

Dr Beco examines horses exclusively for dermatological problems. He always asks for the collaboration of your attending veterinarian.


[![Allergy - Equine dermatology](/thumbnails/10648-280-210-Crop.jpg)](/files/10648.jpg "Allergy - Equine dermatology")

				
[![Photodermatose - Equine dermatology](/thumbnails/11151-280-210-Crop.jpg)](/files/11151.jpg "Photodermatose - Equine dermatology")

				
[![Donkey dermatophilosis - Equine dermatology](/thumbnails/10649-280-210-Crop.jpg)](/files/10649.jpg "Donkey dermatophilosis - Equine dermatology")

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