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So today, joining by myself via the internet, is Professor Ross Bond.

So Professor Bond, thank you very much for joining us today.

Pleasure.

And what we thought we'd talk to you about would be one of your particular interests.

I know you have quite a quite a few, but to talk about pyoderma, I especially, maybe in dogs

and cats, but maybe more in dogs.

So maybe Roskiah asked about, do you think diacomboosing pyoderma is quite a simple thing to do?

No, not necessarily, but of course there are two aspects in pyotermicases, always.

One is recognising whether a dog, mainly dogs, we'll talk mainly about dogs, I think, at this point,

recognising whether a dog has a pyoderm or not, but of course the other aspects of dog, mainly dogs, we'll talk mainly about dogs, I think, at this point, recognizing whether

a dog has a pyoderm or not, but of course the other aspect classically is, why is it there?

Because the usual bacterial pathogen, which causes this, Staphylococcus pseud intermedious,

is a normal inhabitant of healthy canine skin and mucosa.

And for this organism to transition from a commensal into an opportunistic pathogen,

then there has to be some disturbance and impairment of the skin immune system in the broadest sense.

So it is frequently the case that pyrauma is superimposed

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