An epizootic in laboratory guinea pigs due to Trichophyton mentagrophytes.
A widespread epizootic due to a granular variety of Trichophyton mentagrophytes occurred in a new stock of laboratory guinea pigs imported to Perth from one of the Eastern States of Australia. The infection spread quickly among these animals, and infection occurred in rabbits and mice at the breeding station and in 4 people. The human infections were contracted either directly through handling animals or indirectly by means of fomites. The strain of T. mentagrophytes causing the epizootic was distinctive from strains previously isolated in Western Australia.
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D014005:Tinea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary*