VMC 311: Systematic Veterinary Bacteriology and Mycology (2+1)

HISTORY AND HABITAT

History

• Bovine disease was first described by Van Saceghem in 1915 in the Congo now known as Zaire in Africa.

Habitat

• Dermatophilus congolensis is the only species in the genus thought to maintain itself in small foci of infection on a carrier animal or within scab particles in dust.
• It can survive in scab material for periods upto 3 years.