Mycoses Sample Clauses

Mycoses. Black Sea bottlenose dolphins can be contaminated by microscopic fungi which may cause secondary infections of integumentary tissues (superficial mycoses or dermatomycoses) and internal organs (deep or systemic mycoses). According to the research conducted in the former Soviet Union, opportunistic fungi, invading bottlenose dolphin skin and allegedly inducing superficial mycoses, are represented by the genera Alternaria, Rhodotorula, Cladosporium, Mortierella, Trichophyton, Rhombophytum and Hyphomyces (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, 1978; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 1978 a; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and Bliznyuk, 1981; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 1982; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and Dralkin, 1985). Maculated, papulous and ulcerative dermatites, caused by fungi and bacterial-mycotic associations, are widely spread in bottlenose dolphins off the Crimea coast. There is no direct evidence that dermatomycoses themselves lead to lethal end, but they usually open a gateway for further microbe intrusion and promote systemic dissemination of pathogens. Deep mycoses were reported in captive bottlenose dolphins: one case of pyonecrotic broncho-pneumonia caused by Aspergillus fumigatus (pulmonary aspergillosis) (▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ et al., 1982) and two cases of chronic sepsis caused by Candida sp. (systemic candidiasis) (▇▇▇▇▇, 1984) have resulted in animals death.