Comparative morphology of Lacazia loboi (syn. Loboa loboi) in dolphins and humans

Medical Mycology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-14

  Haubold, E M ^a,b   Cooper Jr , C R ^a   Wen, J W ^a   Mcginnis, M R ^a   Cowan, Daniel F ^a,b,c  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Comparative morphometrics; Human; Loboa loboi

Indexed keywords

CALCOFLUOR; REAGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL DESTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOLPHIN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LACAZIA LOBOI; MORPHOMETRICS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALIA; CORYPHAENIDAE; FUNGI; LACAZIA LOBOI; LOBOA; LOBOA LOBOI; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 0033997828     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/714030877     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Lobo J. Um caso de blastomycose produzido por uma especie nova encontrado em Recife. Rev Med Pernam 1931; 1: 763-765.
2. Migaki G, Valerio MG, Irvine B, Garner FM. Lobo's disease in an Atlantic Bottle-nosed dolphin. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1971; 159: 578-582.
3. Taborda PR, Taborda VA, McGinnis MR. Lacazia loboi gen. nov., comb. nov., the etiologic agent of lobomycosis. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37 (6): 2031-2033.
4. Haubold EM, Aronson JF, Cowan DF, McGinnis MR, Cooper CR. Isolation of fungal rDNA from bottlenose dolphin skin infected with Loboa loboi. Med Mycol 1998; 36 (5): 263-267.
5. Cowan DF. Lobo's disease in a Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) from Matagorda Bay, Texas. J Wild Diseases 1993; 29 (3): 488-489.
6. Simose-Lopes PC, Paula GS, Both MC, Xavier FM, Scaramello AC. First case of lobomycosis in a bottlenose dolphin from southern Brazil. Mar Mammal Sci 1993; 9: 329-331.
7. Maeda H, Ishida N. Specificity of binding hexopyranosyl polysaccharides with fluorescent brighteners. J Biochem 1967; 62: 267-278.
8. Sampaio MM, Dias LB. Experimental infection of Jorge Lobo's disease in the cheek-pouch of the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus). Rev Inst Med Trop São Paulo 1970; 12: 115-120.
9. Sampaio MM, Dias LB, Scaff L. Bizarre forms of the aetiologic agent in experimental Jorge Lobo's disease in tortoises. Rev Inst Med Trop São Paulo 1971; 13: 191-193.
10. Sampaio MM, Dias LB. The armadillo, Euphractus sexcinctus, as a suitable animal for experimental studies of Jorge Lobo's disease. Rev Inst Med Trop São Paulo 1977; 19: 215-220.
11. Wiersema JP, Niemel PLA. Lobo's disease in Surinam patients. Trop Geo Med 1965; 17: 89-111.
12. Sesso A, Baruzzi RG. Interaction between macrophage and parasite cells in lobomycosis. The thickened cell wall of Paracoccidioides loboi exhibits apertures to the extracellular milieu. J Submicrosc Cytol Pathol 1988; 20: 537-548.
13. Sesso A, Faria FP, Baruzzi RG. The causative agent of Jorge Lobo's disease, the fungus P. loboi (= Loboa loboi) may be seen extracellularly tightly encircled by histiocytes. Observations at the transmission and scanning electron microscopes. Rev Inst Med Trop São Paulo 1993; 35 (3): 305-306.
14. Woodard JC. Electron microscopic study of lobomycosis (Loboa loboi). Lab Invest 1972; 27: 606-612.
15. Caldwell DK, Caldwell MC, Woodard JC, Ajello L, Kaplan W, McClure HM. Lobomycosis as a disease of the Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus Montagu, 1821). Am J Trop Med Hyg 1975; 24 (1): 105-114.
16. Bossart GD. Suspected acquired immunodeficiency in an Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin with chronic-active hepatitis and lobomycosis. J Am Vet Med Assoc 1984; 185 (11): 1413-1414.
17. de Vries GA, Laarman JJ. A case of Lobo's disease in the dolphin Sotalia guianensis. Aq Mammal 1973; 1: 26-33.
18. Kwon-Chung KJ, Bennett JE. Medical Mycology. Philadelphia; Lea and Febiger Publishers, 1992.