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Advancements
MALASSEZIA AND DOGS WITH CHRONIC
ENTEROPATHY
Ross Bond, Professor of Veterinary Dermatology, and Aarti Kathrani, Senior Lecturer in Small Animal
Internal Medicine
he veterinary profession is whereas fungi have received much chronic inflammatory enteropathy (n=38),
increasingly aware of the role less attention. More recently however, granulomatous colitis (n=2), gastric
T intestinal dysbiosis may play in a considerable scientific interest in enteric adenocarcinoma (n=2), duodenal small
range of disorders in body systems other Malassezia has developed following cell lymphoma (n=1) and idiopathic
than the gastrointestinal tract. Attention has recognition of significant fungal dysbiosis in severe gastrointestinal hemorrhage
tended to focus on bacterial dysbiosis of the humans with Crohn鈥檚 disease, a subtype of (n=2). Fungi were cultured from 14 dogs:
gut but the role of intestinal fungal dysbiosis human inflammatory bowel disease. M. pachydermatis was isolated from
in the overall process is something we are eight (chronic inflammatory enteropathy
exploring as well. [n=7] [along with Candida albicans
The 91暗网鈥檚 Dermatology Service has n=1]; granulomatous colitis [n=1]) and