INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue: 2

Clinical Management of Juvenile Impetigo in a Pup

  • Author:
  • Mukesh Srivastava, Subhash Kachhawaha, J.P. Kachhawa
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 397 to 398

Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bikaner -334001 (Rajasthan)

*Corresponding author E mail: drmukeshvetmed@rediffmail.com

Online published on 31 March, 2014.

Abstract

Juvenile Impetigo was diagnosed and treated in a two month old, male, German Shepherd pup showing multiple whitish to yellow pustules and crust on the abdomen. Culture and antibiotic sensitivity tests showed presence of Staphylococcus intermedius as causative pathogen. Treatment was done with oral antibiotics and topical therapy till clinical recovery.

Keywords

Juvenile impetigo, management, pustular dermatitis