Molecular detection and characterization of var using skin scrapings and skin biopsies.

Canine sarcopticosis is a highly infectious and debilitating parasitic skin disease of dogs. Its diagnosis stands challenging as the golden standard of diagnosis; skin scraping microscopy is characterized by several diagnostic variations. Study thus employed several alternate diagnostic approaches using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) on skin scrapings and skin biopsies.

Sequential Histopathological Changes and Cytokine Expressions in Dogs Naturally Infested with Sarcoptes scabiei Mites.

Background: The diagnosis and treatment of canine scabies remain quite challenging as a result of the meddling of the invertebrate mite Sarcoptes scabiei var canis with the immunologic activity of its host.

Purpose: This study aims to evaluate and better understand the immunologic, histomorphometric, histopathologic changes as well as their relationship in scabies infestation.

Method: Ten healthy dogs were housed with five sarcoptes-ridden dogs.

The seroprevalence of var. and its associated risk factors in dogs in Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria.

This study investigated the use of SARCOPTES-ELISA DOG KIT as a diagnostic tool in detecting anti-mite antibodies, establishing the prevalence of scabies in dogs and the associated risk factors of canine mange occurrence. A total of 384 dogs (149 males and 235 females) were randomly sampled from eight local government areas. The prevalence of canine sarcopticosis was found to be 67.

Establishment of infestivity model for var in Nigerian dogs.

Experimental transmission patterns involved with the establishment of mange in dogs were studied to ascertain the effective means of infestation model for mange experiments in dogs. A total of eighteen (18) dogs were used out of which three (3) were naturally infested with var Five (5) healthy dogs were co-mingled with the three (3) donor dogs for direct contact transmission. Another five (5) mange free dogs were aggregated in a kennel recently vacated by mange infested dogs for environmental and formite transmission while the last five (5) healthy dogs had scrapings from a proximate area of mange lesion sites transferred into the pinnae of each dog for experimental and indirect contact transmission.