CARMO, P. M. S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8603500307281302; CARMO, Priscila Maria Silva do.
Resumen:
Infections caused by fungi and oomycetes have been described as important causes
of morbidity and mortality in ruminants. This work is divided into four chapters. The
first chapter is a literature review about fungal diseases in ruminants, as
conidiobolomycosis, cryptococcosis, aspergillosis, mastitis and mycotic placentitis,
and rhinosporidiosis. The second chapter is a literature review about various forms of
pythiosis in ruminants, including cutaneous pythiosis in cattle, sheep and goats,
rhinofacial pythiosis in sheep, and digestive pythiosis in sheep. The third chapter
reports a case of nasal and cutaneous aspergillosis in a goat that had severe
respiratory distress and a focus of depigmentation in the ventral commissure of the
nostril. Morphologically, it was characterized by erosive pyogranulomatous rhinitis
and dermatitis with intralesional fungal hyphae. Aspergillus niger was isolated by
mycological culture. The fourth chapter reports a case of cutaneous pythiosis in a
goat that had daily acces to a pond and developed an ulcerative lesion on its left hind
limb. The lesions were characterized by piogranulomatous ulcerative dermatitis with
intralesional fungal hyphae stained positively by immuno-histochemistry.