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The history and clinical examination should enable you to formulate a list of differential diagnoses. It may help to create a problem list, identifying the relevant historical features and predominant clinical signs, categorising them as contagious or non‐contagious, and allocating the disease within the following groups, which form the basis for the problem‐orientated approach in this book:

 Pruritic

 Crusting and scaling

 Ulcerative and erosive

 Nodular or swollen

 Alopecia/hair coat changes

 Pigmentary disorders

A diagnostic plan can then be constructed, diagnostic procedures selected, and samples collected. Sample collection may include the following techniques.