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AN EPIZOOTIC IN LABORATORY GUINEA PIGS DUE TO TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES
Author(s) -
McAller R.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian veterinary journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1751-0813
pISSN - 0005-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-0813.1980.tb15981.x
Subject(s) - epizootic , trichophyton , biology , veterinary medicine , new guinea , virology , guinea pig , microbiology and biotechnology , outbreak , medicine , antifungal , history , ethnology , endocrinology
A widespread epizootic due to a granular variety of Trichophyton mentagrophytes occurred in a new stock of laboratory guinea pigs imported to Perth from one of the Eastern States of Australia. The infection spread quickly among these animals, and infection occurred in rabbits and mice at the breeding station and in 4 people. The human infections were contracted either directly through handling animals or indirectly by means of fomites. The strain of T. mentagrophytes causing the epizootic was distinctive from strains previously isolated in Western Australia.