Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2017) 6(3): 640-643 640 Case Study https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2017.603.074 Investigation of Dermatophytosis from the Skin Scrapings Collected from a Cow: A Case Study Subha Ganguly 1 *, Parveez Ahmad Para 2 and Praveen Kumar Praveen 3 1 Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Arawali Veterinary College (affiliated with Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bikaner), N.H. – 52 Jaipur Road, V.P.O. Bajor, Sikar – 332001, Rajasthan, India 2 Department of Livestock Products Technology, Arawali Veterinary College (affiliated with Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bikaner), N.H. – 52 Jaipur Road, V.P.O. Bajor, Sikar – 332001, Rajasthan, India 3 Department of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, Arawali Veterinary College (affiliated with Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bikaner), N.H. – 52 Jaipur Road, V.P.O. Bajor, Sikar – 332001, Rajasthan, India *Corresponding author ABSTRACT Introduction Some dermatophytes have great zoonotic importance, where many of them occurring primarily in animals and can be transmitted from infected animals to man (Nakamura et al., 1999). Dermatophytes are filamentous fungi which invade keratinized tissues of humans and animals, causing mild to severe, localized and/or diffuse infections. Zoophilic and Geophilic dermatophytes infect both animals and humans, whereas anthropophilic ones are mainly found on humans (Cafarchia et al., 2013). Dermatophytosis, caused by Trichophyton verrucosum is a disease that affects many species of livestock and occurs in acute or chronic forms. It is believed that the prolonged wetting is thought to be important predisposing factors (Moretti et al., 1998; Papini et al., 2009). Affected animals initially develop characteristic discrete, scaly patches of hair loss with grey-white crust that later become thickly suppurated crust with highly variable locations (Radostits et al., International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 3 (2017) pp. 640-643 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com Dermatophytosis is a superficial infection of the keratinized layers of the skin and its appendages (hair, feathers, horns) of farm, domesticated and wild animals and birds. The lesions are frequently ring shaped, hence the disease is called ring worm. The present article reports on the laboratory examination of skin scraping sample collected from a cow clinically infected with dermatophyte infection. Keywords Dermatophytes, Fungus, Skin scraping. Accepted: 10 February 2017 Available Online: 10 March 2017 Article Info