Malassezia species isolated from the intermammary and preputial fossa areas of horses

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 395-398

  White, S D ^a   Vandenabeele, S I J ^a,b   Drazenovich, N L ^a   Foley, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Horse; Malassezia; Skin; Yeast

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HORSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALASSEZIA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PENIS; SKIN; UDDER;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HORSES; MALASSEZIA; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; PENIS; SKIN;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA EQUI;

EID: 31144472053     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1892/0891-6640(2006)20[395:MSIFTI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Nakabayashi A, Sei Y, Guillot J. Identification of Malassezia species isolated from patients with seborrhoeic dermatitis, atopic dermatitis, pityriasis versicolor and normal subjects. Med Mycol 2000;38:337-341.
2. White SD, Bourdeau P, Blumstein P, et al. Comparison via cytology and culture of carriage of Malassezia pachydermatis in atopic and healthy dogs. In: Kwochka KW, Willemse T, von Tscharner C, eds. Advances in Veterinary Dermatology, vol. 3. Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1998:3:292-298.
3. Mauldin EA, Morris DO, Goldschmidt MH. Retrospective study: The presence of Malassezia in feline skin biopsies. A clinicopathological study. Vet Dermatol 2002;13:7-13.
4. Duarte EP, Melo MM, Hahn RC, Hamdan JS. Prevalence of Malassezia spp. in the ears of asymptomatic cattle and cattle with otitis in Brazil. Med Mycol 1999;37:159-162.
5. Ihrke PJ, Wong A, Stannard AA, Vivrette SL. Cutaneous fungal flora in twenty horses free of skin or ocular disease. Am J Vet Res 1988;49:770-772.
6. Crespo MJ, Abarca ML, Cabanes FJ. Occurrence of Malassezia spp. in horses and domestic ruminants. Mycoses 2002;45:333-337.
7. Nell A, James SA, Bond CJ, Hunt B, Herrtage ME. Identification and distribution of a novel Malassezia species yeast on normal equine skin. Vet Rec 2002;150:395-398.
8. White SD. Infections. Proceedings of the European Society of Veterinary Dermatology Equine Workshop, Gimo, Sweden, March 2002:13.
9. Scott DW, Miller WH. Equine Dermatology. Philadelphia: WB Saunders Co: 2003:278-281.
10. James SA, Collins MD, Roberts IN. Genetic interrelationship among species of the genus Zygosaccharomyces as revealed by small-subunit rRNA gene sequences. Yeast 1994;10:871-881.
11. O'Donnell K. Fusarium and its near relatives. In: Reynolds ED, Taylor JW, eds. The Fungal Holomorph: Mitotic, Meiotic and Pleiomorphic Speciation in Fungal Sytematics. Wallingford: CAB International; 1993:225-233.
12. Altschul SF, Madden TL, Schaffer AA, et al. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: A new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res 1997;25:3389-3402.
13. The R Project for Statistical Computing, R-Development Core Team, http://www.r-project.org, accessed 10/1/05.
14. Cabanes FJ, Hernandez JJ, Castella G. Molecular analysis of Malassezia sympodialis-related strains from domestic animals. J Clin Microbiol 2005;43:277-283.
15. Guillot J, Poujade-Delverdier A, Boulouha L, Chermette R. Could Malassezia dermatitis be diagnosed in animals other than pet carnivores? Vet Dermatol 2000;11(suppl 1):38.
16. Cook CP, Scott DW, Erb HN, Miller WH Jr. Bacteria and fungi on the surface and within noninflamed hair follicles of skin biopsy specimens from horses with healthy skin or inflammatory dermatoses. Vet Dermatol 2005;16:47-51.
17. Midgley G. The lipophilic yeasts: State of the art and prospects. Med Mycol 2000;38(suppl I):9-16.
18. Gueho E, Midgley G, Guillot J. The genus Malassezia with description of four new species. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1996;69:337-355.
19. Crespo MJ, Abarca ML, Cabanes FJ. Evaluation of different preservation and storage methods for Malassezia spp. J Clin Microbiol 2000;38:3872-3875.
20. Senczek D, Siesenop U, Bohm KH. Characterization of Malassezia species by means of phenotypic characteristics and detection of electrophoretic karyotypes by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Mycoses 1999;42:409-414.
21. Gaitanis G, Velegraki A, Frangoulis E, et al. Identification of Malassezia species from patient skin scales by PCR-RFLP. Clin Microbiol Infect 2002;8:162-173.
22. Mayser P, Schutz M, Schuppe HC, et al. Frequency and spectrum of Malassezia yeasts in the area of the prepuce and glans penis. BJU Int 2001;88:554-558.
23. Bond R, Saijonmaa-Koulumies LE, Lloyd DH. Population sizes and frequency of Malassezia pachydermatis at skin and mucosal sites on healthy dogs. J Small Anim Pract 1995;36:147-150.