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Can you please tell me what these are? (PICTURES INCLUDED!)
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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1413340" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Photos look like those are on abdominal midline, not neck... that looks like preputial hair at right side of pic. </p><p>If that is the case, they are the typical skin lesions that we see in virtually 100% of cattle in this part of the world, as a result of a filarial worm, Stephanofilaria stilesi, the adults and microfilaria of which tend to congregate in the skin on the ventral midline. Vectored by hornflies, S. stilesi causes no significant harm, other than causing those raised scabby, hairless patches on the belly. No effective treatment (and none needed) that I'm aware of... though the macrocyclic lactones (ivermectin, moxidectin, etc.) might have some efficacy...but reinfection is virtually guaranteed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1413340, member: 12607"] Photos look like those are on abdominal midline, not neck... that looks like preputial hair at right side of pic. If that is the case, they are the typical skin lesions that we see in virtually 100% of cattle in this part of the world, as a result of a filarial worm, Stephanofilaria stilesi, the adults and microfilaria of which tend to congregate in the skin on the ventral midline. Vectored by hornflies, S. stilesi causes no significant harm, other than causing those raised scabby, hairless patches on the belly. No effective treatment (and none needed) that I'm aware of... though the macrocyclic lactones (ivermectin, moxidectin, etc.) might have some efficacy...but reinfection is virtually guaranteed. [/QUOTE]
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