Microsporum canis and Sporothrix schenckii: fungi causing skin infections in cats
Companion animals such as cats help to reduce stress among people as they delight their owners in their ways. Good management and hygiene practices of pets help in keeping them in a healthy condition. Nevertheless, since fungal infection develops rapidly, there is a high tendency for them to get inf...
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| author | Mohd-Khlubi, Aina Nazurah Omar, Sharina Bejo, Siti Khairani Megat Abd Rani, Puteri Azaziah |
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| description | Companion animals such as cats help to reduce stress among people as they delight their owners in their ways. Good management and hygiene practices of pets help in keeping them in a healthy condition. Nevertheless, since fungal infection develops rapidly, there is a high tendency for them to get infected. The paucity of data regarding skin mycoses among cats in Malaysia leads to this study. Private veterinary clinics from the Central Region of Peninsular Malaysia were approached for participation in this study. Sampling was conducted for one year, collecting hair plucked, skin scrapings, and swabs from lesions of the cats with skin problems and inoculating onto Sabouraud Dextrose Agar media. Diagnosing the fungal colony was conducted through a direct examination method using lactophenol cotton blue stain and molecular identification of the isolates using polymerase chain reaction targeting the fungi species’ internal transcribed spacer region and β-tubulin gene. Of the 127 cats, 93 were positively infected, mainly with Microsporum canis (n = 38) and Sporothrix schenckii (n = 26). Saprophytic fungi detected on cats were Alternaria sp., Aspergillus sp., Candida sp., Chaetomium sp., Chrysosporium sp., Curvularia sp., Fusarium sp., Geotrichum sp., Penicillium sp., Talaromyces sp., Trichoderma sp., Trichosporon sp., and Xylaria sp. This finding represents the number of cats infected with fungal dermatitis in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, and Putrajaya. |
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| spelling | upm-1142582025-01-13T01:22:26Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/114258/ Microsporum canis and Sporothrix schenckii: fungi causing skin infections in cats Mohd-Khlubi, Aina Nazurah Omar, Sharina Bejo, Siti Khairani Megat Abd Rani, Puteri Azaziah Companion animals such as cats help to reduce stress among people as they delight their owners in their ways. Good management and hygiene practices of pets help in keeping them in a healthy condition. Nevertheless, since fungal infection develops rapidly, there is a high tendency for them to get infected. The paucity of data regarding skin mycoses among cats in Malaysia leads to this study. Private veterinary clinics from the Central Region of Peninsular Malaysia were approached for participation in this study. Sampling was conducted for one year, collecting hair plucked, skin scrapings, and swabs from lesions of the cats with skin problems and inoculating onto Sabouraud Dextrose Agar media. Diagnosing the fungal colony was conducted through a direct examination method using lactophenol cotton blue stain and molecular identification of the isolates using polymerase chain reaction targeting the fungi species’ internal transcribed spacer region and β-tubulin gene. Of the 127 cats, 93 were positively infected, mainly with Microsporum canis (n = 38) and Sporothrix schenckii (n = 26). Saprophytic fungi detected on cats were Alternaria sp., Aspergillus sp., Candida sp., Chaetomium sp., Chrysosporium sp., Curvularia sp., Fusarium sp., Geotrichum sp., Penicillium sp., Talaromyces sp., Trichoderma sp., Trichosporon sp., and Xylaria sp. This finding represents the number of cats infected with fungal dermatitis in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, and Putrajaya. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2024-07-22 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_nc_nd_4 http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/114258/1/114258.pdf Mohd-Khlubi, Aina Nazurah and Omar, Sharina and Bejo, Siti Khairani and Megat Abd Rani, Puteri Azaziah (2024) Microsporum canis and Sporothrix schenckii: fungi causing skin infections in cats. Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, 47 (3). pp. 645-658. ISSN 1511-3701; eISSN: 2231-8542 http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/pjtas/browse/regular-issue?article=JTAS-2807-2023 10.47836/pjtas.47.3.04 |
| spellingShingle | Mohd-Khlubi, Aina Nazurah Omar, Sharina Bejo, Siti Khairani Megat Abd Rani, Puteri Azaziah Microsporum canis and Sporothrix schenckii: fungi causing skin infections in cats |
| title | Microsporum canis and Sporothrix schenckii: fungi causing skin infections in cats |
| title_full | Microsporum canis and Sporothrix schenckii: fungi causing skin infections in cats |
| title_fullStr | Microsporum canis and Sporothrix schenckii: fungi causing skin infections in cats |
| title_full_unstemmed | Microsporum canis and Sporothrix schenckii: fungi causing skin infections in cats |
| title_short | Microsporum canis and Sporothrix schenckii: fungi causing skin infections in cats |
| title_sort | microsporum canis and sporothrix schenckii: fungi causing skin infections in cats |
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