Mancianti F, Papini R
Dipartimento di Patologia Animale, Istituto di Patologia Speciale e Clinica Medica Veterinaria, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Pisa, Italy.
Vet Res Commun. 1996;20(2):161-6. doi: 10.1007/BF00385637.
To evaluate the presence of keratinophilic fungi in the environment, 400 samples were collected from the floors of 50 private veterinary clinics using 55-mm-diameter 'contact plates', containing mycobiotic agar. After incubation for 15 days at 25 degrees C, the following species were isolated: Microsporum canis, Trichophyton terrestre, Chrysosporium keratinophilum, Chrysosporium sp., Microsporum gypseum, Trichophyton ajelloi, Chrysosporium tropicum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Chrysosporium state of Arthroderma tuberculatum and Chrysosporium pannorum. It is concluded that the keratinic material shed by infected pets may contribute to the development and propagation of dermatophytes and related fungi in veterinary clinics. Therefore, such veterinary clinics may represent sites where pets and humans are exposed to risk of infection with keratinophilic fungi from the environment.
为评估环境中嗜角质真菌的存在情况，使用含有霉菌琼脂的55毫米直径“接触平板”，从50家私人兽医诊所的地面采集了400份样本。在25摄氏度下培养15天后，分离出以下菌种：犬小孢子菌、土生毛癣菌、嗜角质金孢菌、金孢菌属、石膏样小孢子菌、阿杰洛毛癣菌、热带金孢菌、须癣毛癣菌、结核节皮菌的金孢菌状态以及泛生金孢菌。得出的结论是，受感染宠物脱落的角蛋白物质可能有助于皮肤癣菌和相关真菌在兽医诊所的生长和传播。因此，此类兽医诊所可能是宠物和人类面临从环境中感染嗜角质真菌风险的场所。
