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Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 42(1), 2006, pp. 175-178
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Cryptococcus gattii in Wildlife of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

C. Duncan1,5, H. Schwantje2, C. Stephen3, J. Campbell1 and K. Bartlett4

1 Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, WCVM, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada;
2 Ecosystems Br., Ministry of Environment, P.O. Box 9338, Stn Prov Govt, 2975 Jutland Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W9M1;
3 Centre for Coastal Health, Nanaimo, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada;
4 School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, University of British Columbia, 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T1Z3
5 Corresponding author (email: colleen.duncan{at}colostate.edu)

ABSTRACT:   Although Cryptococcus gattii has emerged as an important pathogen of humans and domestic animals on Vancouver Island, Canada since 1999; its distribution in regional wildlife species is largely unknown. Opportunistic sampling methods were employed to obtain nasal swabs for fungal culture from wild mammal species residing within the coastal Douglas fir biogeoclimatic zone on the southeast coast of the island. Samples were collected from 91 animals representing 14 species. Cryptococcus gattii was isolated from the nasal swabs of two eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) trapped in Duncan, British Columbia. The relative proportion of nasal colonization in wild mammal species is consistent with findings in domestic animals, suggesting that animals may be good indicators of environmental organisms.
  Key words:  Canada, Cryptococcus gattii, eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis, wildlife.




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