Veterinary Clinical Medicine-I (General and Systemic)

ASPERGILLOSIS

• It is an inhaled fungus and causes the most common nasal fungal infection in dogs (A. fumigatus), especially in dolichocephalics. Urinary aspergillosis occurs in German shepherd dogs. Systemically it is a respiratory disease.

• Causes pulmonary infections in birds and death in penguins, mycotic abortion in cattle, gutteral pouch mycosis in horses, infections of the nasal and paranasal tissues of dogs.
• Clinical signs and lesions in birds include yellow nodules in respiratory passages, etc. It eats away at turbinates.
• Treatment with Itraconazole and others. Flush nasal cavity with Clortrimazole.