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Keratinophilic fungi associated with rabbit claws in Egypt
Author(s) -
Moharram A. M.,
AbdelGawad K. M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of basic microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.58
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1521-4028
pISSN - 0233-111X
DOI - 10.1002/jobm.3620290712
Subject(s) - microsporum gypseum , paecilomyces , biology , penicillium , claw , veterinary medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , botany , ecology , trichophyton , antifungal , medicine
Using the soil plate technique, thirty one species appertaining to twenty three genera were recovered from 160 samples of rabbit claws which were collected from a rabbit farm at Assiut. Of the true keratinophilic fungi Chrysosporium tropicum was the most prevalent where it colonized 56.25% of the samples. Microsporum gypseum was rarely isolated in this study. Among the non‐keratinophilic fungi Penicillium funiculosum, P.jenseni and Paecilomyces lilacinus were of low incidence (20%, 19.37% and 14.37% of the samples, respectively).