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*Haplomycosis
 
*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
    
==Aspergillosis==
 
==Aspergillosis==
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==Coccidioidomycosis==
 
==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
    
==Entomophthoromycisus==
 
==Entomophthoromycisus==
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==Histoplasmosis==
 
==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
    
==Zygomycosis==
 
==Zygomycosis==
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