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1
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Inhabits oral cavity, digestive tract, and vagina.

Can cause mycotic stomatitis, enteritis, and mastitis.

In young chickens and turkeys it can cause crop mycosis.

A

Candida albicans

2
Q

Soil contaminant.

A

Rhodotorula rubra

3
Q

Occ. cause disease;

Found widely in nature

A

Geotrichum

4
Q

Skin of humans and animals;

otitis externa in dogs and cats

A

Malassezia pachydermatis

5
Q

Mastitis in dairy cattle

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Prototheca

6
Q

Dogs and cats;

Fluoresce under Wood’s lamp

A

Microsporum canis

7
Q

Large variety of animals and humans

A

Microsporum gypseum

8
Q

Dermatophyte of pigs;

RIngworm in humans

A

Microsporum nanum

9
Q

Horses and other equidae;

skin

A

Trichophyton equinum

10
Q

Dermatophytosis in humans and animals

A

Trichophyton mentagrophytes

11
Q

Dermatophytosis in cattle (winter) and sheep (summer or fall).

A

Trichophyton verrucosum

12
Q

Occurs widely in nature;

“bread mold”

A

Absidia

13
Q

Occurs widely in nature;

“bread mold”

A

Mucor

14
Q

Occurs widely in nature;

“bread mold”

A

Rhizopus

15
Q

Soil;

pulmonary disease

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Alternaria

16
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Cladosporium

17
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Curvularia

18
Q

Widely dist in soil;

harmless but can be implicated in eye infections

A

Fusarium

19
Q

Important in environment and for food and abx production

A

Penicillium

20
Q

Occ cause infections in animals and humans

A

Scopulariopsis

21
Q

Pulmonary or intestinal disease;

affects WBCs

A

Histoplasma capsulatum

22
Q

Granulomatous (pulmonary) nodules in dogs and humans

A

Blastomyces dermatitidis

23
Q

Brooder pneumonia in chickens and turkeys;

Abortions in cattle and horses;

Guttural pouch infections in horses;

Infections of respiratory tract in other animals

A

Aspergillus fumigatus

24
Q

Ear and lung infections;

oxalic acid poisoning from ingestion of contaminated animal feed

A

Aspergillus niger

25
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Aspergillus parasiticus

26
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Aspergillus flavus