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**Usually caused by [[Bacteroides|''Bacteroides nodosus'']] together with [[Fusobacterium|''Fusobacterium necrophorum'']]
**Moisture and trauma allow ''B. nodosus'' to enter -> aids bacterial penetration of epidermis -> ''F. necrophorum'' invades -> necrosis and inflammation
**Grossly:
***Early lesions - red, moist, swollen, eroded interdigital skin
***Spreads to epidermal matrix of hoof -> separation of horn + malodorous exudate
***Regeneration attempted as germinal epithelium is not destroyed
***Chronic infections -> long , misshapen hoof
**Benign footrot (scald)- only interdigital ski affected, slight separation of heel horn
***Mostly the type occuring in cattle[[Category:Cattle]]
**Moisture and trauma allow ''B. nodosus'' to enter -> aids bacterial penetration of epidermis -> ''F. necrophorum'' invades -> necrosis and inflammation
**Grossly:
***Early lesions - red, moist, swollen, eroded interdigital skin
***Spreads to epidermal matrix of hoof -> separation of horn + malodorous exudate
***Regeneration attempted as germinal epithelium is not destroyed
***Chronic infections -> long , misshapen hoof
**Benign footrot (scald)- only interdigital ski affected, slight separation of heel horn
***Mostly the type occuring in cattle[[Category:Cattle]]