Microsporosis In Your Pets

Microsporosis is probably the most common fungal infection in cats and dogs, caused by fungi of the genus Microsporum. This disease is specific because it can be transmitted from animals to humans, and it usually occurs in late summer or early autumn.

Microsporosis is transmitted by direct contact with a sick cat or a dog, but also a carrier of pathogens, which may not have pronounced symptoms (a large number of healthy cats can be a carrier of pathogens in spore form).

This leather diseases commonly present in children because their immune systems are not fully developed, and with it, often without control touch and play with unfamiliar dogs or cats.

Pathogen Microsporosis is extremely resistant to adverse external influences. On the objects and the environment can survive for several months, so it is possible to become infected and over contaminated items. For this reason, in addition to treatment, it is necessary and disinfection of the area in which the infected animal.

The symptoms

Microsporosis in the cats (less frequently in dogs) manifests in one or more areas of alopecia or without hair on the animal's body. These changes to the skin can be substantially round, oval or irregularly shaped.

At the affected sites, the most common and skin shows a considerably altered appearance. Increased the shell, and may show the inflammatory changes. These complications result of subsequent infection by bacteria that an animal can be very unpleasant

Alopecia can be of a smaller diameter (1 cm), but can be caught and a larger area of ​​the body.

There are two forms Microsporosis in humans, depending on the location:

If the infected scalp hair in these places waste in circles or oval surfaces and has a height of two to four millimeters above the skin.

In the case of contamination of other parts of the body there are changes in the skin in the form of circles with a raised edge in red, while the interior of the circle normal color (in the image). Also, there is also fine scaling in the middle rounds as possible are less crusting. Changes may be accompanied by moderate or intense itching.

Diagnosis

In suspected cases, eximination of the animal is needed and particularly the places where there is a skin lesions.

For this purpose is used a Wood's lamp, which in a darkened room producing ultraviolet rays. They pass through glass, under which agents Microsporosis fluoresce yellow - green color.