Therapeutic Management of Generalised Demodicosis and Dermatophytosis in a Dog.

A five year old male dog presented with generalized patchy alopecia, erythema, papules, pustules, pruritus and skin scales on most body parts. Cigar shaped demodex mites in deep skin scrapping from lesions confirmed generalised demodicosis. Culture of superficial skin scrapping revealed presence of Trichophyton mentagrophytes. The dog was treated with daily oral Ivermectin @ 0.5 mg/kg body weight along with topical Amitraz @ 0.05% twice in a week until two consecutive skin scrapings resulted in cure. Antimicrobial therapy along with Ketoconazole treated concurrent bacterial and fungal infection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]