Pithyosis is one terror of a disease as there is no effective cure for it other than surgical excision. Once it colonizes the gut it has destroyed it before it is diagnosed. I have diagnosed around six cases and no matter what we did, the universities did, or experimental treatments tried, they all failed.
It is mostly found in Florida, or elsewhere?
I don`t suppose that`s something else the flood of Yeb`s ‘act of love’ crowd brought back to the US?
That’s worse than I realized.
Thanks for your information.
I just looked this up @ wikipedia and saw a pic of it on a dog. My cat developed something similar on the back of his neck, started out about the size of a dime when I first noticed it and the next day about the size of a quarter. I cleansed it with hydrogen peroxide and then treated it with silver sulfadiazine. It stopped the spread and I treated it again for three more days. as the healing started I used neosporin to keep it from drying out and cracking, kitty is well on the way to recovery.
Ketoconazole doesn’t work?
Is that because by the time it is diagnosed it has done too much damage, or is it resistant?
Thanks for sharing your expertise, btw.