Dermatophytosis is one of the most common skin diseases that affect dogs. Geographic factors like temperature and humidity play an important role in determining prevalence of dermatophytosis. The aim of this study was to determine the macroscopic and microscopic identification of different types of dermatophytes from the dogs presented to University Veterinary Hospital, Kokkali and Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, Mannuthy. Skin scrapings and hair were collected from the dogs presented with complaint of alopecia and pruritus. Each sample was cultured on Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA). The cultures were incubated at room temperature for maximum of four weeks. The isolates of fungi were examined macroscopically and microscopically.Lactophenol cotton blue staining technique was used for fungi morphology identification. The most common type of dermatophytes affecting dogs in Thrissur district, Kerala were Trichophyton spp.(68 per cent), Microsporum spp. (32 per cent) and other non-dermatophytes fungi viz. Aspergillusspp., Sporothrix spp., and curvularia spp. This study could assist investigators for understanding the prevalence of the dermatophytes and in zoonotic aspects.

Leptospirosis is anunderdiagnosed bacterial anthropozoonotic disease that is considered as a major public health concern in India. The present study was conducted to detect the presence of antibodies against different leptospiral serovars in slaughtered cattle in Thrissur. A total of 165 blood samples were collected from slaughtered cattle of two slaughterhouses viz., Meat Technology Unit (MTU), KVASU, Mannuthy (n=85) and Thrissur Municipal Slaughterhouse (TMS), Thrissur (n=80). The serum samples from the slaughtered cattle were subjected to Microscopic Agglutination Test (MAT). The overall occurrence of leptospirosis from both the slaughterhouses was 44.42 per cent. A seropositivity of 37.65 and 51.25 per cent in slaughtered cattle respectively were found by MAT from samples collected from MTU, Mannuthy and TMS, Thrissur. The predominant serovars detected in slaughtered cattle were Sejroe (28.76 per cent), Grippotyphosa (21.91 per cent) and Australis (15.06 per cent).The results revealed that the apparently healthy slaughtered cattle had been exposed to leptospirosis and could act as a source of infection to the slaughterhouse workers.