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Digital Dermatitis

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Definition: Highly contagious infectious dermatitis with lesions near the interdigital spaces usually in cattle. It causes discomfort and often severe lameness (LAMENESS, ANIMAL). Lesions can be either erosive or proliferative and wart-like with papillary growths and hypertrophied hairs. DICHELOBACTER NODOSUS and TREPONEMA are the most commonly associated causative agents for this mixed bacterial infection disease.  animal only; coordinate IM with appropriate infection term (IM) + precoordinated animal/disease term (IM) if pertinent   
See Also Dichelobacter nodosus; Foot Rot; Treponema
Other names Warts, Bovine Foot; Wart, Bovine Foot; Papillomatous Digital Dermatitides; Papillomatosis, Digital; Papillomatoses, Digital; Ovine Digital Dermatitides; Hairy Footwarts, Bovine; Hairy Footwart, Bovine; Footwarts, Bovine Hairy; Footwart, Bovine Hairy; Foot Warts, Bovine; Foot Wart, Bovine; Digital Papillomatoses; Digital Dermatitis, Papillomatous; Digital Dermatitis, Ovine; Digital Dermatitis, Bovine; Digital Dermatitides, Papillomatous; Digital Dermatitides, Ovine; Digital Dermatitides, Bovine; Digital Dermatitides

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