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1 March 2018 DETECTION OF OPHIDIOMYCES OPHIODIICOLA IN TWO CAPTIVE BOCOURT WATER SNAKES (SUBSESSOR BOCOURTI) AND ONE CAPTIVE PUEBLAN MILK SNAKE (LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM CAMPBELLI)
Pierre Picquet, Kim O. Heckers, Ekaterina Kolesnik, Anton Heusinger, Rachel E. Marschang
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Abstract

Two captive Bocourt water snakes (Subsessor bocourti) presented with chronic white skin lesions on their heads; Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola was identified by culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in skin scrapings from both snakes. Histopathology performed in one Bocourt water snake revealed fungal hyphae in epidermal structures of lesions. One Pueblan milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum campbelli) from the same zoologic institution presented with yellow crusts and white blisters on its body, from which O. ophiodiicola was identified by culture and PCR. Two of the three snakes apparently recovered from lesions after multiple natural sheds, whereas the third snake died. This is the first report of O. ophiodiicola infection in Bocourt water snakes and in a Pueblan milk snake, as well as the first report of O. ophiodiicola in France.

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Pierre Picquet, Kim O. Heckers, Ekaterina Kolesnik, Anton Heusinger, and Rachel E. Marschang "DETECTION OF OPHIDIOMYCES OPHIODIICOLA IN TWO CAPTIVE BOCOURT WATER SNAKES (SUBSESSOR BOCOURTI) AND ONE CAPTIVE PUEBLAN MILK SNAKE (LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM CAMPBELLI)," Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 49(1), 219-222, (1 March 2018). https://doi.org/10.1638/2017-0112R.1
Accepted: 1 September 2017; Published: 1 March 2018
KEYWORDS
dermatitis
Europe
France
Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola
polymerase chain reaction
snake fungal disease
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