- 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