(21) - Equine Pemphigus Foliaceus

Question 1

1. Autoimmune skin diseases are rare in large animals.

2. Most cases have been reported in what?

Answer 1

2. horses

Question 2

1. Lesions usually start where?
2. Whatl can be the initial sign in some horses?
3. Like in dogs and cats, the primary lesions are what?
4. Over 50% of the patients have concurrent signs of what?

Answer 2

1. on the face or limbs and then become generalized.
2. Edema of the extremities and ventra
3. pustules (These lesions are very transient and most of the time the clinician will see, crusts, scales, oozing, annular erosions)
4. systemic illness (depression, weight loss, poor
   appetite, and pyrexia).