Animal Cutaneous Mycoses in Japan

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  • Kano Rui
    Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Nihon University College of Bioresource Sciences

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  • 本邦での動物による皮膚真菌症の現状と今後の課題
  • ホンポウ デ ノ ドウブツ ニ ヨル ヒフ シンキンショウ ノ ゲンジョウ ト コンゴ ノ カダイ

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 Human cases of dermatophytoses are occasionally transmitted from animals, and suffered from tinea corporis and sometimes Kerion celsi. The most frequent causative agent of these diseases is Microsporum canis. The other dermatophyte, Arthroderma benhamiae is now prevailing in rabbits, rodents and hedgehogs that are popular household pets in Japan. Therefore, some human cases of A. benhamiae infection were reported and the transmission of this infection from rabbits and rodents was confirmed. Cryptococcosis is regarded as dangerous zoonosis, but its transmission from animal to peoples has not been documented in Japan. Animal cases of cryptococcosis are possible to increase in number by developing immunosuppressive animals as well as by spreading of newly introduced C. gattii to Japan. Animal cases of sporotrichosis are rarely reported in Japan. However, feline sporotrichosis should be prevented and promptly treated since it easily transmitted to people from cat lesions and the exudates where copious numbers of organisms are found in tissues.

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