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Adiaspiromycosis was identified in 6 animals in the examination of the lungs of 90 large carnivores. Emmonsia crescens (Chrysosporium parvum var. crescens) was demonstrated as the causative agent in 5 cases of disease — in the badger (Meles meles), the otter (Lutra lutra) and the fox (Vulpes vulpes). E. parva was demonstrated in the remaining case of disease in a fox. The badger is a new, up to the present unknown host of E. crescens. The sporadic occurrence of adiaspiromycosis in the fox and the otter classifies this disease among rare diseases of these animals.
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Křivanec, K., Otčenášek, M. & Šlais, J. Adiaspiromycosis in large free living carnivores. Mycopathologia 58, 21–25 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00493589
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