Footrot (disambiguation)

Footrot in ruminants refers to various pathological conditions:

In sheep, contagious footrot is a universally distributed disease (affecting accessorily goats) characterised by chronic contagious epidermatitis of feet, especially in the fore limbs, caused by two anaerobic bacteria, not transferable to bovines.^[1]

In cattle there has been a confusing terminology and several entities probably exist under such names as footrot (USA) Panaritium (Germany) or panaris (France).^[2]

The following digital diseases of cattle^[3] might have been called "footrot":

• Interdigital necrobacillosis: an acute severe phlegmon of interdigital connectif tissue, especially in the rear limbs.
• Interdigital dermatitis also called Scald: an acute or chronic inflammation of the interdigital skin, without extension to the subcutaneous tissue
• Interdigital skin hyperplasia: excess of epidermal and hypodermal tissue occupying part of all of interdigital space, especially dorsally in the fore limbs.
• Pododermatitis circumscripta: specific profiferative lesion of the sole-bulb junction, near the axial margin (rear limbs).
• Distal interphalangeal arthritis: purulent inflammation of the distal phalangeal joint, often a complication of one of the above cited conditions, especially in the rear limbs.

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  knee-walking in ovine footrot
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  partially trimmed hooves of an affected ewe
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  interdigital phlegmon in a steer
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  Interdigital skin hyperplasia
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  Pododermatitis circumscripta (on both claws)
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  distal interphalangeal arthritis