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Trichophyton bullosum is a zoophilic dermatophyte that has been rarely isolated from horses and humans in Africa and Europe. This is the first reported isolation of T. bullosum from a horse with dermatophytosis in Japan. The isolate from a skin lesion formed a cream-colored and waxy colony that was slightly elevated in the center. Sequencing of the internal transcribe spacer region of the isolate revealed that it was 100% identical to that of T. bullosum.

Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) measurements by use of a positron source of 22 Na were performed for the polycrystalline tungsten samples that were exposed to low-energy deuterium (D) plasma. The energy of D plasma was low and then it was expected that it would affect just the near-surface region. However, we obtained the longer mean positron annihilation lifetime in the tungsten samples exposed to the low-energy D plasma than the virgin tungsten sample. Moreover, the same longer values were obtained even on the other (no exposed) side of the samples, although the thickness of the samples was 1 mm or 2 mm. The elongation of the positron lifetime probably indicates defects formation in W. Ohsawa, et al. predicted that the high concentration hydrogen creates high concentration vacancy-hydrogen clusters by the first-principles calculations. We also performed positron annihilation age-momentum correlation (AMOC) measurements to know if there are some D's at the positron trapping sites such as vacancies and found that some of the positrons annihilate with electrons in D.