A 40 yr-old female white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) suffered from chronic nail-bed abscesses. Due to worsening of clinical signs, the animal's nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory treatment was switched to firocoxib. Approximately 7 days after this change, the animal developed multifocal vesicles and bullae along the lateral aspects of the thorax and abdomen, the dorsum, and the proximal limbs. Cytology and culture did not identify an infectious etiology. Histologically, the lesions consisted of a severe, subacute vesiculobullous dermatitis with intraepidermal to subepidermal clefting with areas of individual keratinocyte necrosis and minor neutrophilic epidermal infiltrates. These findings are similar to those seen in some drug reactions in people; therefore an adverse drug reaction to the firocoxib was suspected.
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1 March 2012
Vesiculobullous Skin Reaction Temporally Related to Firocoxib Treatment in a White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)
Elizabeth M. Stringer,
Ryan S. De Voe,
Keith Linder,
Brigid Troan,
Amy McCalla-Martin,
Michael R. Loomis
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Adverse drug reaction
Ceratotherium simum
firocoxib
vesiculobullous dermatitis
white rhinoceros