Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to R McAleer.
Four surveys were conducted on different animal groups in the metropolitan area of Perth. Microsporum canis was the only fungus isolated from cats and was prevalent in these animals. Dermatophyte infections in dogs were less common and were caused by M. canis. M. gypseum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes. T. mentagrophytes was isolated from laboratory guinea pigs but not from native animals.
A widespread epizootic due to a granular variety of Trichophyton mentagrophytes occurred in a new stock of laboratory guinea pigs imported to Perth from one of the Eastern States of Australia. The infection spread quickly among these animals, and infection occurred in rabbits and mice at the breeding station and in 4 people. The human infections were contracted either directly through handling animals or indirectly by means of fomites. The strain of T. mentagrophytes causing the epizootic was distinctive from strains previously isolated in Western Australia.
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