Fungi (Lab) Flashcards
Inhabits oral cavity, digestive tract, and vagina.
Can cause mycotic stomatitis, enteritis, and mastitis.
In young chickens and turkeys it can cause crop mycosis.
Candida albicans
Soil contaminant.
Rhodotorula rubra
Occ. cause disease;
Found widely in nature
Geotrichum
Skin of humans and animals;
otitis externa in dogs and cats
Malassezia pachydermatis
Mastitis in dairy cattle
Prototheca
Dogs and cats;
Fluoresce under Wood’s lamp
Microsporum canis
Large variety of animals and humans
Microsporum gypseum
Dermatophyte of pigs;
RIngworm in humans
Microsporum nanum
Horses and other equidae;
skin
Trichophyton equinum
Dermatophytosis in humans and animals
Trichophyton mentagrophytes
Dermatophytosis in cattle (winter) and sheep (summer or fall).
Trichophyton verrucosum
Occurs widely in nature;
“bread mold”
Absidia
Occurs widely in nature;
“bread mold”
Mucor
Occurs widely in nature;
“bread mold”
Rhizopus
Soil;
pulmonary disease
Alternaria
Cladosporium
Curvularia
Widely dist in soil;
harmless but can be implicated in eye infections
Fusarium
Important in environment and for food and abx production
Penicillium
Occ cause infections in animals and humans
Scopulariopsis
Pulmonary or intestinal disease;
affects WBCs
Histoplasma capsulatum
Granulomatous (pulmonary) nodules in dogs and humans
Blastomyces dermatitidis
Brooder pneumonia in chickens and turkeys;
Abortions in cattle and horses;
Guttural pouch infections in horses;
Infections of respiratory tract in other animals
Aspergillus fumigatus
Ear and lung infections;
oxalic acid poisoning from ingestion of contaminated animal feed
Aspergillus niger
Aspergillus parasiticus
Aspergillus flavus
