| eastern cottontail (sylvilagus floridanus) as carrier of dermatophyte fungi. | eastern cottontail (sylvilagus floridanus, fam. leporidae), introduced into piedmont (italy) in the 1960s, was studied as carrier of dermatophyte fungi. of 216 hair samples collected from animals culled between september 1999 and july 2000 in the province of alessandria (piedmont, italy) during a pest control project, 57 (26.4%) yielded dermatophyte colonies. as two different species of dermatophytes grew from two samples, a total of 59 fungal isolates (26.5%) were obtained. six dermatophyte spe ... | 2005 | 16170613 |