Zinc Deficiency
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- Mainly in dogs and pigs, sometimes ruminants
- In pigs:
- Grossly:circumscribed reddened papules and plaques, thick crusting and scaling, fissures along ventral abdomen and medial thighs, sometimes generalised
- Microscopically: parakeratosis, acantosis, pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia, hypergranulosis
- Commonly secondary bacterial dermatitis
- In dogs:
- Siberian huskies and Alaskan malamutes:
- Grossly: scales and crusts around mouthm chin, eyes, joints, prepuse, scrotum, vulva
- Microscopically: diffuse hyperkeratosis extending to follicles, superficial perivascular dermatitis with eosinophils
- Rapidly growing puppies:
- Grossly: scaly plaques on skin, nasal planum and foot pads
- Siberian huskies and Alaskan malamutes:
- In ruminants:
- Grossly: alopecia, crusts and scales on face, neck and distal extremities and mucocutaneous junctions
- Microscopically: parakeratosis, sometimes hyperkeratosis