Anyone have a clue what this might be?

[SevenSins]

First time I show this to anyone, one thing comes to mind: Ringworm. But it's not ringworm and in fact probably isn't even fungal, nothing grew on the culture the vets took. My other dog had one of these on his thigh a few months ago, and again, not ringworm and the vet has no idea what it could be. In both cases this went away on its own. Problem: *I* have it now - Dr says it's not ringworm but probably another species of the same basic type of fungal infection (Tinea something or other) and that I probably got it from the dog, however, the dog was scraped/cultured and nothing grew, so does anyone have a clue what the stuff might be so I have some sort of information to give my dr since mine apparently doesn't want to just go away?

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[bernicesmama]

tank had that a few months ago. vet discovered it was a bacterial infection. antibiotics taken orally and antibacterial shampoo cleared it up quickly.

i thought it was ringworm at first, but same thing as you. vet did scraping and not fungal.

he had them all over his body.

let me see if i can find the thread.

[bernicesmama]

http://www.prodoggroomingsupplies.co...light=ringworm

http://www.prodoggroomingsupplies.co...light=ringworm

[SevenSins]

Did they happen to mention what kind of bacterial infection it was and whether or not it was transmitable? I'm currently being treated for fungal at the insistance of my doctor (I hate doctors, have I ever mentioned this?), but I'm at least 80% sure I got whatever this is from the dog. So confused.

[bernicesmama]

if he did, i forgot the name, but i dont' think he did. tank had them all over, it was horrible. it honestly looked just like ringworm too, i was taken aback when the vet said it wasn't. it made sense to me though, because the antifungal med werent' working on it. as soon as we got the antibiotics it cleared right up.

bernice also never got it.

is your's getting better?

also, I never got it and i am in very close contact with the dog.
perhaps the two cases are just a coincidence?

[EmmaGirl]

It looks, at first glance, to be a fungal infection. It may be helpful if you could provide a pic of the site on you rather than the dog. I would discount viral...but not bacterial. Hard to tell at this point.

[Nightrise]

Looks like similar (but not exactly) like a spider bite I had a while back and we thought it was a black widow. I did research and found out it possibly still was a black widow just not eeryone reacts the same (we had black widows, lol). Maybe a bite? Spider? Tick?

[Bosley Slave]

Could it be Lymes Disease? It usually presents itself as a "target". That is the first thing I thought of when I saw the picture.

[GSDNewbie]

do you think it may be another strain simular to ring worm that may have come in on goblyn?

[Camberaoh]

No newbie cus his dog had it a couple months ago.. he just got goblyn