Yeast-like fungi
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Candidosis
Cryptococcosis
Geotrichosis
Malassezia pachydermidis
Rhodotorula
- Rhodotorula minuta and R. rubra
- Canine ear infections
- Equine uterus
- Seldom seen in animal infections
Torulopsis glabrata
- Commensal in animals and is found in the soil
- Implicated in cases of:
- Pyelonephritis, pneumonia, septicaemia and meningitis (humans)
- Mastitis and abortion in cattle
- Systemic infection of monkeys and dogs
Trichosporonosis
- Found in soil
- Deuteromycetes yeast
- Trichosporonosis beigelii
- Implicated in feline nasal granuloma, skin infections in horses and monkeys, mastitis in cattle and sheep and in feline bladder infections
- T. capitum implicated in bovine mastitis
- Cryptococcus neoformans causes granulomatous rhinitis in cats, see respiratory infections
- Candida is an opportunistic pathogen at mucus membranes, causing thrush.
- Blastomyces dermatitidis in blastomycosis in lungs
- Histoplasma capsulatum in histoplasmosis in lungs
- Candida spp. in candidiasis
- Malassezia pachydermis in malassezia dermatitis