Yeast-like fungi

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FUNGI



Candidosis

  • Candidia albicans is the most important species
    • C. tropicalis and C. pelliculosa are other important species
  • World wide distribution
  • Usually an endogenous mycoses
  • Noramlly present on skin, vagina and in the GI tract
  • Immunocompromised animals may show symptoms
  • Usually lesions on mucous membranes and at mucocutaneous junctions
  • Many species have been implicated in bovine mastitis
  • C. albicans has been isolated in porcine stomach ulcers
  • C. rugosa has been implicated in pyometra in mares
  • Infection of the crop, oesophagus and mouth occur in poultry and other birds leading to 'sour crop'
    • White-grey lesions in mouth which adhere loosly to the mucous membrane
    • Crop wall may be thickened
    • Crop wall may be covered by a yello-white necrotic material
    • Underlying tissue is inflammed
  • Causes thrush in humans
  • C. albicans causes metritis and vaginitis in mares and genital candidiosis in stallions (and bulls)
  • Skin scrapings in 20% KOH for microscopy
  • Diphtheritic membranes, pus and fluids can be examined by Lactophenol Cotton Blue and stained by Gram or Methylene Blue
  • Gram positive, oval, thin-walled budding cells with hyphal fragments
  • Grow on blood agar and Sabouraud's Dextrose agar producing soft, creamy colonies in 24-48 hours
  • Grossly:
    • Exudative, papular, pustular to ulcerative dermatitis
    • Stomatitis and otitis externa may develop
  • Microscopically:
    • Spongiotic neutrophilic pustular inflammation
    • Parakeratosis
    • Ulcerations
    • Superficial exudate containing organisms

Cryptococcosis

Geotrichosis

Malassezia pachydermidis

  • Normally present in oily areas on the external ear canal and skin in dogs
    • Some strains have been recovered from the ear canal of cats
  • Bottle-shaped, small budding cells, non-mycelial
  • Gram stain shows purple yeast cells with a very wide base
  • Grow on Sabouraud's Dextrose agar in 2 weeks of incubation at room temperature
  • Greenish discolouration on blood agar
  • Clinical disease may cause yeast to proliferate and cause infection
  • Grossly:
    • Regional lesions: muzzle, ears, interdigital, perianal
    • Or generalised disease
    • Erythematous, hyperpigmented, lichenified and scaly lesions with alopecia
  • Microscopically:

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

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