Systematic Veterinary Virology

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

• FMD should be differentiated from vesicular stomatitis, swine vesicular disease, vesicular exanthema of swine, foot rot, and chemical and thermal burns.
• In cattle, oral lesions caused by rinderpest, infectious bovine rhinopneumonitis, bovine virus diarrhea, malignant catarrhal fever, and bluetongue can be similar to the later lesions in FMD.
• In sheep, lesions caused by bluetongue, contagious ecthyma, and lip and leg ulceration can be similar to the later lesions of FMD.