PULMONARY MYCOSES IN SHEEP AND GOATS

Lungs and pulmonary lymphnodes with nodular lesions from 886 sheep and 253 goats revealed changes of pulmonary mycoses in 16 cases having le sions of aspergillosis (8), zygomycosis (2), candidiasis (1) and nocar diosis (5). Out of these 16 cases, both histopathological lesions and isolations were positive in 1 sheep and 2 goats for A. fumigatus, 2 sh eep and 2 goats for A. flavus and 1 sheep for Candida albicans. Positi ve precipitation reactions were detected in 2 goats for A. flavus and in sheep for C. albicans. One sheep for aspergillosis, I sheep and I g oat for zygomycosis and 3 sheep and 2 goats for nocardiosis were diagn osed on histopathological basis alone. Detection of precipitin antibod ies in 19 sheep and 33 goats for A. fumigatus, in 26 sheep and 47 goat s for A. flavus, and in 8 sheep and 26 goats for both amongst 410 samp les screened indicated prevalence of subclinical infection in a large number of animals.