| Species/Subspecies:
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Trichophyton mentagrophytes |
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| Categories:
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Animal pathogen; human pathogen; dermatophyte |
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| Etymology:
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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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| Taxonomy:
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| Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
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| Ascomycota | Eurotiomycetes | Onygenales | Arthrodermataceae | Trichophyton |
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Macromorphology (smell):
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Micromorphology:
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| Reproduction: | |
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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. |
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| Disease/effect:
| Dermatofytosis is zoonotic.
| Hosts/substrate | Disease/effect | Clinical picture or result |
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| Many different animal species, for instance companion animals | Ringworm (dermatophytosis) | Can infect the parts of the body that consist of keratin, i.e. skin, hair and claws/nails etc. Infektion of the skin will result in circular areas with hair loss | | Humans | Tinea | Skin infection on the face, feet, hands, groin and scalp, which causes scaling, itching and dryness as well as typical circular rashes |
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| Genome Sequence:
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| ACC-No GenBank | Strain/Isolate | # of chrom | Size (Mbp) |
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| GCA_003664465 | D15P127 | | 23.7 |
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| Mitochondrial DNA sequence:
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| ACC-No GenBank | Strain/Isolate | Number of BP | Ref |
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| NC_012826 | BMU 03104 | 24 297 | # 65 |
Circular DNA
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| 18S rRNA Seq:
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| ACC-No GenBank | Strain/Isolate | Number of NT |
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| EF631618 | BMU03104 | 2313 |
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| ITS regions:
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| ACC-No GenBank | Strain/Isolate | Number of NT | Genes |
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| OK484432 | 09-21NVT | 601 | (ITS 1), 5.8S rRNA, (ITS 2) |
ITS 1 and ITS 2 are partial
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| Taxonomy/phylogeny:
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| Reference(s):
| No. 42 |
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| Updated: | 2022-09-14 |
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