Adiaspiromycosis

• Haplomycosis

• Emmonsia crescens
  • Does not proliferate within the animal body
  • Each spore develops into a thick-walled spherule called an adiaspore

• Chrysosporium parvum, C. crescens

• Non-contageous, pulmonary mycosis

• Worldwide

• Found in soil

• Affects burrowing rodents and small animals

• Respiratory infection

• Spetate hyphae with large numbers of small, round conidia either singly or in groups on the ends of the short conidiospores can be seen

• Dimorphic

• Grows on Sabauraud's Dextrose agar and Blood agar