Chronic active, eosinophilic and pyogranulomatous dermatitis, multifocal, severe, with furunculosis, fibrosis, ulceration, serocellular crusting, and intralesional embryonated nematode parasite eggs. Microscopically, there are marked multifocal chronic active, eosinophilic, and pyogranulomatous inflammatory infiltrates in the dermis associated with many embryonated nematode parasite eggs, with the morphologic features consistent with a primitive filarial nematode. This worm has been reported in skunks, racoons, badgers, and a lesser panda. This parasite is a primitive filarial nematode. Dermatitis caused by Filaria taxideae in a lesser panda.
Filarial dermatitis is a striped skunk.
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