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Isolation of Candida rugosa from turkeys
A Moretti1, D Piergili Fioretti, L Boncio
1Dipartimento di Scienze Biopatologiche Veterinarie, Facoltà di Medicina Veterinaria, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy. rprof2f2@unipg.it
Abstract:
The present study describes the isolation of Candida rugosa from young turkeys that died 10 days after the end of a therapeutic treatment for a recent outbreak of coccidiosis. Candida rugosa was isolated from the digestive tract of all the birds examined. This isolation is the first in turkeys and corroborates the fact that C. rugosa is an opportunistic yeast which circumvents host defences when other predisposing factors are present.