First Isolation of Yarrowia lipolytica in a Granulomatous Pneumonia of a Spectacled Caiman, Caiman crocodilus Linnaeus, 1758.

ABSTRACT: Contrary to humans, candidiasis is a rare infection in animals. However, in reptiles, candidiasis can cause gastrointestinal, cutaneous, or rarely systemic infections in stressed animals. The infections due to Yarrowia lipolytica have been increasingly described in human medicine, and hundreds of cases are reported, comprised of granulomatous lung lesions. Herein, granulomatous pneumonia of a spectacled caiman, Caiman crocodilus, was described, and the presence of Y. lipolytica in the lesion was confirmed through histopathology, microbiologic cultures, and molecular methods. The cause of death of the spectacled caiman was ascribed to bacterial shock septicemia consequentially to a traumatic lesion. However, in the right lung, several nodules containing white exudate we

SUBMITTER: Iurescia M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9698808 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature