Curvularia dermatomycosis in a goat: Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract

A 2 year old female nondescript goat was presented with the history of skin infections such as reddening, crusty and darkened areas. Samples were randomly collected from affected areas aseptically for microbiological examination. Macroscopic and Microscopic examination of colony on sabouraud’s dextrose agar revealed cottony and dark brown coloured colony. The reverse is brown to brownish-black in colour. Microscopic examination of colonies by lacto phenol cotton blue staining revealed the presence of septate hyphae with short conidiophores and multicellular, curved conidia. The appearance of surface colonies on sabouraud’s dextrose agar as well as in lactophenol cotton blue staining identified the organism as Curvularia species. The Curvularia species are commonly found on variety of plants. The present communication reports the Curvularia sp. skin infections in goat in the Cauvery delta region of Tamil Nadu, India.