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Provedor de dados: | 58
País: | Brazil
Título: | Detection of seasonal asymptomatic dermatophytes in Van cats
Autores: | Ilhan,Ziya; Karaca,Mehmet; Ekin,Ismail Hakki; Solmaz,Hasan; Akkan,Hasan Altan; Tutuncu,Mehmet.
Data: | 2016-03-01
Ano: | 2016
Palavras-chave: | Carriage; Dermatophytes; Isolation; Van cat.
Resumo: | Abstract The Van cat is a domestic landrace found in the Van province of eastern Turkey. In this study, we aimed to determine the seasonal carriage of dermatophytes in Van cats without clinical lesions. A total of 264 hair specimens were collected from clinically healthy cats in and around the Van Province. Of these samples, 30.3% were obtained in spring, 30.6% in summer, 16.6% in autumn, and 22.3% in winter; 45.1% of samples were from male cats and the rest from female ones. Of the studied cats, 118 were younger than 1 year, 78 were 1–3 years old, and 68 were older than 3 years. The specimens were subjected to direct microscopic examination with 15% potassium hydroxide and cultured on Sabouraud dextrose agar and dermatophyte test medium supplemented with cycloheximide and chloramphenicol. Dermatophyte identification was carried out based on macroscopic and microscopic colony morphology, urease activities, in vitro hair perforation test, growth at 37 °C, and pigmentation on corn meal agar. Dermatophytes were isolated from 19 (7.1%) of the 264 specimens examined. The most frequently isolated fungi were Trichophyton terrestre (4.1%), followed by Microsporum gypseum (1.1%), M. nanum (1.1%), and T. mentagrophytes (0.7%), and these fungi may represent a health risk for humans in contact with clinically healthy Van cats. M. canis was not isolated from any of the specimens. Our results show no significant (p &gt; 0.05) association between carriage of dermatophytes and the gender of cats. The carriage rate of dermatophytes was high in spring and winter, and the only possible risk factor for infection was age of the animal.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822016000100225
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
Relação: | 10.1016/j.bjm.2015.11.027
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Microbiology  v.47 n.1 2016
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess