Ringworm due toMicrosporum canisin cats and dogs in New Zealand

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Extract Ringworm is a common zoonotic disease in New Zealand. Of the several zoophilic species of dermatophytes, the, most frequently encountered and most important from a public health viewpoint in this country is Microsporum canis. Marples (1951) Baxter, M. and Lawler, D. C. 1972. The incidence and microbiology of otitis externa of dogs and cats in New Zealand. N.Z. vet. J., 20: 29–32. [Taylor & Francis Online] [Google Scholar] considered that about 40% of scalp and body ringworm of children was due to contact with cats and she was later able to demonstrate a cat source of infection in nearly one-third of families with ringworm-infected children ( Marples, 1956 Clayton, Yvonne and Midgley, Gillian . 1968. A new approach to the investigation of scalp ringworm in London schoolchildren. J. clin. Path., 21: 791–791. [Google Scholar] ). Hill (1959) Connole, M. D. 1965. Keratinophilic fungi on cats and dogs. Sabouraudia, 4: 45–48. [Taylor & Francis Online] [Google Scholar] considered cats to be responsible for 63% of human infections and the most frequent species of dermatophyte isolated from human infections by Smith et al. (1969) Dawson, Christine and Noddle, Barbara M. 1968. Treatment of Microsporum canis ringworm in a cat colony. J. small Anim. Pract., 9: 613–620. [Google Scholar] was M. canis (29%).