title: Keratinophilic fungi associated with rabbit claws in Egypt.
abstract: Using the soil plate technique, thirty one species appertaining to twenty three genera were recovered from 160 samples of rabbit claws which were collected from a rabbit farm at Assiut. Of the true keratinophilic fungi Chrysosporium tropicum was the most prevalent where it colonized 56.25% of the samples. Microsporum gypseum was rarely isolated in this study. Among the non-keratinophilic fungi Penicillium funiculosum. P. jenseni and Paccilomyces lilacinus were of low incidence (20%, 19.37% and 14.37% of the samples, respectively).
authors.affiliation: Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Egypt.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Moharram
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Abdel-Gawad
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002912:Chrysosporium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004534:Egypt; D005658:Fungi / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006724:Hoof and Claw / Q000382:microbiology*; D011817:Rabbits / Q000382:microbiology*