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Cutaneous hyalohyphomycosis caused by Fusarium solani in a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta L.)
F J Cabañes1, J M Alonso, G Castellá
1Departament de Patologia i de Producció Animals, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain. F.J.CABANES@CC.UAB.ES
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|December 17, 1997
Abstract:
Fusarium solani was reported as the agent of a cutaneous infection in an injured sea turtle collected in the Mediterranean Sea. The turtle was treated with both a topical 10% solution of iodine in alcohol and ketoconazole. The source of the causal agent was traced to the sand in the tank in which the turtle was maintained. The strain was only sensitive in vitro to amphotericin B and was resistant to 5-fluorocytosine, fluconazole, itraconazole, and ketoconazole.