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Epizootic and epidemic dermatophytose outbreaks caused by Trichophyton mentagrophytes from rabbits in Portugal, 2015.
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Epizootic and epidemic dermatophytose outbreaks caused by Trichophyton mentagrophytes from rabbits in Portugal, 2015.

  • Mesquita JR Escola Superior Agrária de Viseu, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Viseu, Portugal. jmesquita@esav.ipv.pt.
  • Vasconcelos-Nóbrega C Escola Superior Agrária de Viseu, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Viseu, Portugal.
  • Oliveira J Escola Superior Agrária de Viseu, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Viseu, Portugal.
  • Coelho C Escola Superior Agrária de Viseu, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Viseu, Portugal.
  • Vala H Escola Superior Agrária de Viseu, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Viseu, Portugal.
  • Fratti M Department of Dermatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Arabatzis M Department of Dermatology, Medical School, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • Velegraki A Mycology Research Laboratory, Microbiology Department, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece.
  • Michel M Department of Dermatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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  • 2016-06-14
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  • Mycoses. - 2016
Trichophyton mentagrophytes
dermatophytoses
epidemiology
outbreak
Animals
DNA, Fungal
DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
Disease Outbreaks
Epidemics
Europe
Genotype
Greece
Humans
Italy
Portugal
Rabbits
Tinea
Trichophyton
English We report an outbreak of dermatophytoses in rabbits, which was the origin of a dermatophytose epidemic in an agricultural school in central Portugal, affecting 15 people. Both the phenotypic characteristics and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence of the dermatophytes isolated from the rabbits and patients were identical, suggesting that a single strain was responsible for both the epizootic and epidemic dermatophytoses and confirming that these two outbreaks were linked. The ITS sequences were also 100% identical to the ITS sequence of five strains isolated from rabbits in Greece and Italy, but different from that of Trichophyton mentagrophytes commonly isolated from dogs and cats. These results suggest that a particular T. mentagrophytes genotype could be prevalent in rabbits in southern Europe.
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