Title
Chapter Title: Ophidiomycosis
Book Title: Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy, Volume 9
Author(s)
Paré, Jean A.
Published
2019
Abstract
Fungal isolates recovered from cutaneous lesions in a ball python (Python regius) in the United Kingdom in 1985, a captive corn snake (Pantherophis [Elaphe] guttatus) in western New York in 1986, a garter snake (Thamnophis sp.) in Germany in 1999, captive brown tree snakes (Boiga irregularis) in Maryland in 1999, a captive Pueblan milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum campbelli) in Wisconsin in 2001, a file snake (Acrochordus sp.) in Australia in 2003, salt marsh snakes (Nerodia clarkii) in Central Florida in 2006, a captive Eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) in Tennessee in 2006, a captive green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) in California in 2008, and a captive broad-headed snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides) in Australia in 2010 were all, under light microscopy, morphologically identical to each other and to the Chrysosporium anamorph of Nannizziopsis vriesii (CANV).1
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