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Petriellidium boydii from the reproductive tracts of mares

Authors: di Menna ME, Carter ME
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 23, Issue 1-2, pp 13, Jan 1975
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Horse, Livestock
Subject Terms: Reproduction, Fungal/yeast, Reproduction - female
Article class: Correspondence

Abstract: The ascomycete mould Petriellidium boydii (Shear) Malloch, formerly known as Allescheria boydii, with its imperfect form Monosporium apiospermum Sacc., is a common cause of human mycetomas in many parts of the world. It has also been reported as a cause of bovine abortions in Canada, Great Britain and the United States (Rowsell, 1955; Austwick and Venn, 1961; Knudtson et al 1974), of a superficial chronic infection of a dog in Germany (Pezenburg, 1958) and of an equine abortion in Great Britain (Mahaffety and Rolssdale, 1965). In New Zealand, Rush-Munro (1966) recovered it from eleven cases of chronic otomycosis in humans…

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