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1 January 1986 ADIASPIROMYCOSIS IN STRIPED SKUNKS IN ALBERTA, CANADA
Mudher A. Albassam, Rakesh Bhatnagar, Leonard E. Lillie, Laurence Roy
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Abstract

Pulmonary adiaspiromycosis was diagnosed in seven of 25 striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) in east-central Alberta. The infection varied from mild, where only microscopic lesions were seen, to severe, where gross lesions of grayish-white nodules were observed in the lung parenchyma. Mild lesions were restricted to the lung, while severe lesions extended to the tracheobronchial and mediastinal lymph nodes. Histologically, the lesions were characterized by a centrally located fungal spherule, surrounded by granulomatous inflammation. The morphology of the fungal spherules was consistent with that of Emmonsia crescens. By electron microscopy, the fungal cells had an outer thick fibrillar wall and an inner cytoplasm filled with large lipid vacuoles with relatively few mitochondria, ribosomes or glycogen inclusions. The absence of endosporulation and budding suggested that each fungal cell in the lung represented a separate inhaled spore. Infection was by inhalation, nevertheless adiaspores may disseminate to the regional lymph nodes.

Albassam, Bhatnagar, Lillie, and Roy: ADIASPIROMYCOSIS IN STRIPED SKUNKS IN ALBERTA, CANADA
Mudher A. Albassam, Rakesh Bhatnagar, Leonard E. Lillie, and Laurence Roy "ADIASPIROMYCOSIS IN STRIPED SKUNKS IN ALBERTA, CANADA," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 22(1), 13-18, (1 January 1986). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-22.1.13
Received: 28 January 1985; Published: 1 January 1986
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