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_Trichoderma pseudokoningii_ Rifai isolation from Egyptian immunocompromised cattle with _Mycobacterium bovis_ infection

Abstract

Recently, _Trichoderma_ species have emerged as potent fungal pathogens in immunocompromised humans. We report the first three cases of _Trichoderma pseudokoningii_ Rifai pulmonary infection in the Egyptian tuberculous dairy cattle with _Mycobacterium bovis_, from the heart of a generalized bovine TB in a cow over 5 years old, a mediastinal lymph node of pulmonary TB in a cow of 3 years old, and a lung of mixed pulmonary and digestive BTB in a cow of 4 years old. We have also developed a pathogenisity test technique for _Trichoderma pseudokoningii_ Rifai infection in 3 G. pigs by intraperitoneal injection of 2 G. pigs with mixed infection of _Mycobacterium bovis_ and _Trichoderma pseudokoningii_ Rifai; death of both animals 14 days, thereafter, and by injection of 1 G. pig with single infection of _Trichoderma pseudokoningii_ Rifai; death of animal 21 days, thereafter. We did not report any animal case along review of literature

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