Treatment of Dermatophytoses Caused by Microsporum canis in Allouatta guariba Primates

Marsicano, GleideRoll, Alessandra de AraújoFerreiro, LaerteSpanamberg, AndréiaPenter, Camila DuarteCabral, Juliane Nunes Hallal

Dermatophytoses are cosmopolitan contagious mycoses of the skin and concern a wide range of mammals, including man, and more rarely birds. These mycoses are rarely diagnosed in New World Primates. The most frequent tinea of the subhuman Primates is microsporosis due to Microsporum canis or trichophytosis by Trichophyton mentagrophytes and T. simii. The main clinical features are regular alopecia with erythema and squamosis, usually non-pruriginous although various degree of inammation may modify this typical aspect. As a consequence, an accurate clinical examination, a good differential diagnosis and laboratory analyses are required for a correct identification. Alouatta guariba are primates found from the Amazon region up to the Argentina Norwest. Due to the population development and expansion of the urban perimeters thes animals are loosing their space in their own natural habitat and being exposed to more closed relationship with domestic animals and humans. This report contains five cases of dermatophytoses caused by Microsporum canis in Alouatta sp., which were treated in a private clinic in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.(AU)

1. dermatophytoses
2. primates
3. Microsporum canis
4. fluconazole
5. Alouatta guariba