| Species/Subspecies: | Trichophyton mentagrophytes | ||||||||||
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| Categories: | Animal pathogen; human pathogen; dermatophyte | ||||||||||
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| Significance: | T. mentagrophytes is one of the most important among the zoophilic dermatophytes. It is highly contagious, expensive to treat and difficult to control. [Important] |
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| Spec. Char.: | Dermatophytes have proteases, elastases (serine proteases) and keratinases, which are virulence factors and the degradation products are nutrients for the fungi. | ||||||||||
| Disease/effect: | Dermatofytosis is zoonotic. |
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| Reference(s): | No. 42 | ||||||||||
| Updated: | 2022-09-14 |
