Digital Dermatitis in Cattle: Current Bacterial and Immunological Findings

Digital Dermatitis in Cattle: Current Bacterial and Immunological Findings

Globally; digital dermatitis is a leading form of lameness observed in production dairy cattle. While the precise etiology remains to be determined; the disease is clearly associated with infection by numerous species of treponemes; in addition to other anaerobic bacteria. The goal of this review article is to provide an overview of the current literature; focusing on discussion of the polybact...

Bacterial Causes of Digital Dermatitis (DD) in Dairy Cattle

Clinical and gross pathologic findings of complicated vertical fissures with digital dermatitis in a dairy herd

Careful antemortem examination and interpretation of findings, assisted by good clinical records, do much to throw light on the nature of vertical fissure in cattle. During an eight month period of investigation, 13 (3.2%) lame cows with vertical fissure out of 52 Holstein cows with different claw fissures were selected for clinical and gross pathological purposes in a commercial dairy farm wit...

Clinical Perspectives of Digital Dermatitis in Dairy and Beef Cattle.

Digital dermatitis is a polybacterial disease process of dairy and beef cattle. Lesions are most commonly identified on the plantar aspect of the interdigital cleft of the hind limbs. Treponema spp are routinely present in large numbers of active lesions. Lesions are painful to the touch and can result in clinical lameness. The infectious nature generally results in endemic infection of cattle ...

clinical and gross pathologic findings of complicated vertical fissures with digital dermatitis in a dairy herd

careful antemortem examination and interpretation of findings, assisted by goodclinical records, do much to throw light on the nature of vertical fissure in cattle. during aneight month period of investigation, 13 (3.2%) lame cows with vertical fissure out of 52holstein cows with different claw fissures were selected for clinical and gross pathologicalpurposes in a commercial dairy farm with 40...