Keratinophilic fungi associated with rabbit claws in Egypt

Using the soil plate technique, thirty one species appertaining to twenty three genera were recovered from 160 samples of rabbit claws which were collected from a rabbit farm at Assiut. Of the true keratinophilic fungi Chrysosporium tropicum was the most prevalent where it colonized 56.25% of the samples. Microsporum gypseum was rarely isolated in this study. Among the non-keratinophilic fungi Penicillium funiculosum. P. jenseni and Paccilomyces lilacinus were of low incidence (20%, 19.37% and 14.37% of the samples, respectively).