Fungi Associated with the Hairs of Goat and Sheep in Libya

Abstract

The mycoflora on the hair in 25 samples of each of goats and sheep collected from Libya was analyzed using two isolation methods at 25℃. Seventy species and 3 varieties belonging to 31 genera were collected from the two substrates. The hairs of sheep were polluted with fungi than goat, contained high total counts and number of genera and species. Two species of true dermatophytes were isolated namely Trichophyton rubrum and T. terrestre. Several keratiophilic species were isolated of which Chrysosporium indicum, C. keratinophilum and C. tropicum were the most prevalent. The commonest saprophytes in order of frequency were members of the genera Aspergillus, Penicillium, Emericella, Alternaria and Cochliobolus.

Mycoflora associated with the goats hair and sheep wool in Taif, Saudi Arabia

“…Various saprophytic fungi were encountered and the most prevalent species on the goat sheep were members of Aspergillus, Penicillium, Alternaria and Cochliobolus. These results are similar to those obtained by El-Said and Abdel-Sater (1995) and El-Said et al (2009). They reported that members of Aspergillus, Penicillium, Alternaria and Cochliobolus were the most common in order of frequency, saprophytic fungi from goat and sheep hairs in El-Bahrain and Libya.…”

“…The most contaminated hairs were that of sheep with the higher total counts (226 isolates/300 fragments) and a wide spectrum of species (14 species) than that of goat (174 isolates and 13 species) as shown in Table 1. Similar observations were obtained from goats and sheep in many parts of the world (Nasser and Abdel-Sater, 1997;El-Said et al, 2009;Sallam and ALKolaibe, 2010). Chrysosporium was the most frequent genus and emerged in 90 and 96.6% of the samples comprising 83.3 and 80.5% of total isolates and have relative importance value RIV of 173.3 and 177.1 of goat and sheep, respectively.…”

“…They were encountered in 13.3 and 6.7% of the samples matching 5.3 and 1.3% of the total isolates. The previously identified species was found to be in 4, 1.7, 16 and 12% of goat and sheep hairs in Libya (El-Said et al, 2009). Some species were isolated only from one substrate and not from the other such as C. asperatium from goat and C. pannorum from sheep hairs ( Table 1).…”

“…This genus was also isolated from goat and sheep hairs in Yemen as reported by Sallam and ALKolaibe (2010), indicating that Chrysosporium was recorded in 73 and 68% of the goat hairs and sheep wool samples constituting 57.1 and 47.1% of total fungi, respectively. Also, in Libya, El-Said et al (2009) observed that Chrysosporium was the most frequent genus and emerged in 92 and 96% of the samples comprising 91.2 and 87.8% of the total isolates and have Bokhary et al (1999) and Yemen by Sallam and ALKolaibe (2010). Chrysosporium asperatium and C. xerophilum were of low frequency on goats hairs.…”

“…Penicillium brevicompactum, P. purpurogenum and P. variabile were isolated only from goat hair but were not encountered on sheep hairs (Table 2). Additionally, members of Penicillium were among the most common fungi on the hair of different animals from Libya (El-Said et al, 2009), Saudi Arabia (Nasser and Abdel-Sater, 1997), Romania (Nichita and Marcu, 2010) and Yemen (Sallam and ALKolaibe, 2010).…”