14/10/2024
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Game meat
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Demodectic mange in a boar carcass
Skin samples were submitted from a wild boar carcass from a game meat handling establishment. When removing the skin, the inspectors observed the presence of multiple whitish nodular lesions in the subcutaneous tissue of the skin of the animal's cranial area.
The wildlife expert pathologists who collaborate with the SESC immediately identified the lesion as demodicosis or demodectic mange. Indeed, when a smear of the contents of the nodules was performed abundant mites of the genus Demodex could be observed under the microscope .
The histological study confirmed lesions of folliculitis (inflammation of the hair follicles) and furunculosis (rupture of the follicle with inflammatory infiltrate) with abundant intralesional demodex. (EV)