Isolation of Myxotrichum and Gymnoascus from the Lungs of Animals

Abstract

SUMMARYDuring a search for coccidioidomycosis in rodents in western Texas, 9 strains of Myxotrichum sp. and 3 of Gymnoascus reessii were isolated from the lungs of animals. They produced no apparent disease, but are able to survive mouse passage, and were selected from other saprophytes isolated because of microscopic resemblance to Coccidioides.