[Occupational dermatomycoses of zoophilic origin in Bulgaria]

The relative proportion of zoophilic dermatomycoses is increased in comparison with Tinea capitis et pedum. The most frequent zoophilic species now is not only T. mentagrophytes, but T. verrucosum as well. Occupational mycoses caused by T. mentagrophytes and T. quinckeanum in vivaria put forward new problems for experimental medicine. The author states his arguments in favour of T. quinckeanum as a separate, specialized species with reduced morphology, forming scutula. T. verrucosum is phylogenetically the most highly differentiated monoreceptive zoophilic on cattle. With its physiological, parasitological and epidemiological characteristics it is primarily the object of veterinary medicine and also of human medicine. The measures for fighting those mycotic infections are described in detail. Because of cattle-farm expansion the combat of cattle trichophytosis presents in itself a tough problem. The number of the infected is thus also increased. Immunisation with the LFT-130 vaccine and therapy with griseofulvin products containing medicinal feed, according to Kielstein, is recommended.