Canine Distemper Virus Infection in A Terier Dog with Pyotraumatic Dermatitis

Canine distemper virus (CDV), which is closely related to measles virus and rinderpest virus, two other members of the genus Morbillivirus of the Paramyxoviridae family, is devastating, highly contagious pathogen that occurs worldwide 1,2. The host spectrum of CDV comprises dogs and many other carnivores 3,4 The variety of clinical signs noticed among CDV infection in dogs resembles the multisystemic clinical picture of the disease 5,6 The virus may produce skin lesion in some animals. As a consequle of general debility, some of the dogs, and especially very young pupies may represent with widespread impetigo. Skin lesions involving vesicular and pustular dermatitis may be noticed among infected dogs 5,6. Pustuler dermatitis was observed among 95% of Nigerian dogs experimentally infected with CDV 5.