Vol. 9, Issue 3, Part D (2024)

Author(s): G Sravani and PI Ganesan

Abstract: Studies on the prevalence of fungal diseases carried along with their clinical signs in an organized livestock farm in Jamdoli, Jaipur, having 19 cows, 18 Murrah buffaloes,6 Murrah calves, with varying age groups. Few Murrah milch animals and buffalo calves revealed skin lesions. Hence all the buffaloes and their calves were clinically examined and the skin scrapings were screened for their etiological agents’ involved in the causation of the cutaneous lesions. In this study the adult buffaloes suffered with hair loss with white spots, alopecia, muco-cutaneous ulceration, scaling, plaques, necrotizing fasciitis and eschar. Affected animals develop discrete scaling batches of hair loss with grey-white crust that later become a thickly suppurated crust in variable locations. The lesions observed mostly on the neck, chest, face, dewlap, lower abdomen and inter-maxillary skin. Skin scrapings from this buffalo and their calves revealed concurrent fungal infections of microsporum and Mucormycosis. The risk factors attributed for the development of cutaneous lesions in these bovine populations discussed in this study.