ISOLATION OF LECYTHOPHORA-MUTABILIS AND WANGIELLA-DERMATITIDIS FROM THE FRUIT EATING BAT, EIDOLON-HELVUM

Lecythophora mutabilis was isolated from the lungs of 3 and from the l iver of 2 bats, Eidolon helvum a fruit eating species. Wangiella derma titidis was recovered from the liver of 2 bats of the same species. Th e isolates were pathogenic for laboratory mice when injected by subcut aneous, intraperitoneal and intravenous routes. W. dermatitidis was ne urotropic in the mice injected intravenously.