Urban and rural mycozoonoses
Arrese, J.E.; Martalo, O.; Piérard-Franchimont, C.; Piérard, G.E.
Revue Medicale de Liege 55(11): 998-1002
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0370-629X PMID: 11195712 Document Number: 513345
The main mycozoonoses are due to specific dermatophytes which are pathogens for man and animals. Contamination occurs most often after close contact with the animal showing clinical lesions or with inapparent carriage only. The contaminated environment also participates to the mycozoonotic epidemics. Interhuman transmission is more rarely encountered. Young children before puberty are most receptive to the disease. The main urban mycozoonosis is due to Microsporum canis transmitted by dogs and cats. Rural mycozoonoses due to Trichophyton ochraceum can be contracted from bovines. Zoophilic dermatophytes induce lesions which are most often quite inflammatory in humans.