Spontaneous feline sporotrichosis: a fine structural study. Academic Article

abstract

• Fine structural details of the parasitic yeastlike phase of Sporothrix schenckii contained in biopsy tissue from a naturally-occurring case of disseminated feline sporotrichosis are described and illustrated by electron microscopy. Both free and phagocytosed fungal cells were observed. The fungal cells were contained within an extracellular, electron transparent vacuolar area which was bounded by a limiting membrane of probable host origin. The yeastlike cells were characterized by a conspicuous layer of osmiophilic microfilaments which occurred along the outermost surface of the cell wall. In many yeastlike cells, scattered, membrane-bound vacuoles containing electron opaque material were observed in the cytoplasm. Asteroid bodies were not observed.

authors

• Kier, Ann

published proceedings

• Mycopathologia

author list (cited authors)

• Garrison, R. G., Boyd, K. S., Kier, A. B., & Wagner, J. E.

citation count

• 18

complete list of authors

• Garrison, RG||Boyd, KS||Kier, AB||Wagner, JE

publication date

• November 1979

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Mycopathologia  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Cat Diseases
• Cats
• Microscopy, Electron
• Skin
• Sporothrix
• Sporotrichosis

PubMed Central ID

• 542207

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/BF00428603

start page

• 57

end page

• 62

volume

• 69

issue

• 1-2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00428603