Adiaspiromycosis in large free living carnivores.
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.
D000818:Animals; D002335:Carnivora; D002912:Chrysosporium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003604:Czechoslovakia; D005260:Female; D005589:Foxes; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D003904:Mitosporic Fungi / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009181:Mycoses / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D010041:Otters