Adiaspiromycosis in large free living carnivores

Mycopathologia. 1976 Jun 4;58(1):21-5. doi: 10.1007/BF00493589.

Abstract

Adiaspiromycosis was identified in 6 animals in the examination of the lungs of 90 large carnivores. Emmonsia crescens (Chrysosporium parvum var. crescens) was demonstrated as the causative agent in 5 cases of disease-in the badger (Meles meles), the otter (Lutra lutra) and the fox (Vulpes vulpes). E. parva was demonstrated in the remaining case of disease in a fox. The badger is a new, up to the present unknown host of E. crescens. The sporadic occurrence of adiaspiromycosis in the fox and the otter classifies this disease among rare diseases of this animals.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Carnivora*
  • Chrysosporium* / isolation & purification
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Female
  • Foxes
  • Lung / microbiology
  • Male
  • Mitosporic Fungi* / isolation & purification
  • Mycoses / microbiology
  • Mycoses / veterinary*
  • Otters