Skin diseases of the horse
Subtitle: prevention, diagnosis, treatment
By: Anke Rusbuldt
Series: Understanding your horse
Publisher: Cadmos
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Great Britain
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9783861279785
Subjects: Horses; Treatment; Popular works; Diseases; Skin
Description: Discussing the hard-to-diagnose and frequently life-threatening skin diseases that horses can suffer through this book offers an overview of the 50 most common skin diseases, from ringworm to sarcoids, wounds, and eczema and provides guidance for their sensible management. It discusses infectious skin diseases such as viruses, bacteria, fungal skin diseases, and parasites as well as non-infectious skin diseases such as hereditary, immunological, and environmental diseases. Correct recognition of the type of skin disease is crucial in order to understand the additional diagnostic measures that should be carried out and to identify the best treatment regime.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The skin; title: Diagnosis of skin diseases; title: Infectious skin diseases: Viral skin diseases; title: Bacterial skin diseases; title: Fungal skin diseases, 'ringworm'; title: Ectoparasites; title: Endoparasites.