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| − | ==Adiaspiromycosis==
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| − | *Haplomycosis
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| − | *''Emmonsia crescens''
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| − | **Does not proliferate within the animal body
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| − | **Each spore develops into a thick-walled spherule called a '''adiaspore'''
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| − | *Non-contageous, pulmonary mycosis
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| − | *Worldwide
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| − | *Affects burrowing rodents and small animals
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| − | *Respiratory infection
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| − | *Spetate hyphae with large numbers of small, round conidia either singly or in groups on the ends of the short conidiospores can be seen
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| − | ==Aspergillosis==
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| − | *''Aspergillus fumigatus'' causes [[Nasal Cavity Inflammatory - Pathology#Infectious causes of rhinitis|rhinitis]] and in [[Respiratory Fungal Infections - Pathology#|respiratory tract inflammation]], also [[Paranasal Sinuses Inflammatory - Pathology#Infectious causes of sinusitis|sinusitis]], [[Guttural Pouches Inflammatory - Pathology|guttural pouch mycosis]]
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| − | *Sometimes appears on [[Nasal Cavity Hyperplastic and Neoplastic - Pathology#Progressive ethmoidal haematoma|lesions of ethmoidal haematoma]]
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| − | *May cause [[Bronchi and Bronchioles Inflammatory - Pathology#Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)|COPD]]
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| − | ==Blastomycosis==
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| − | *North America
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| − | ==Coccidioidomycosis==
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| − | *''Coccidioides immitis''
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| − | *Ocurs in the soil
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| − | **Respiratory infections
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| − | **Most commonly seen following dust storms
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| − | *Occurs in arid regions
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| − | **E.g. South West USA and Mexico
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| − | *Non-contageous, systemic mycosis
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| − | *Affects dogs, cattle, sheep and humans
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| − | *Mainly affects the lungs
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| − | **Dissemination can occur to other organs
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| − | *Thick-walled spherule in tissue
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| − | *Saprophytic phase consists of coarse, septate, branching hyphae which fragment into thick-walled, barrel-shaped arthrospores which alternate with empty cells
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| − | ==Entomophthoromycisus==
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| − | *Basidiobolmycosis
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| − | ==Histoplasmosis==
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| − | *''Histoplasma capsulatum''
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| − | *Non-contageous, systemic mycosis
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| − | *Commonly pulmonary infections occur
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| − | **Other organs can be involved
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| − | *Endemic to the USA
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| − | **Isolated cases have been reported in Europe
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| − | *Respiratory infection
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| − | *Affects dogd, cats, cattle, horses and humans
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| − | *Present intracellularly in macrophages as oval yeast cells with few buds
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| − | *Found in soil contaminated by bird droppings and in caes inhabited by bats
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| − | *Fine, branching, septate hyphae with smooth-walled pyriform to spherical microconidia and large, thick-walled tuberculate macroconidia on simple conidiophores
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| − | ==Zygomycosis==
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| − | *Mucormycosis
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| − | ==Further Links==
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| − | *[[Antifungal Drugs]]
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