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Blasto: A little yeast spoils the loaf

By Ben J. Character
VeterinarianSpecial to ESPNOutdoors.com

Thursday, March 24, 2005

We all know how important our dog's noses are to their (and our) success while afield, but what you may not know is that the nose is the route for acquiring a very deadly fungal infection called blastomycosis. What is blasto? Blastomycosis, frequently shortened to simply "blasto," is a fungal disease caused by the organism Blastomyces dermatitides. In nature Blastomyces lives in the soil in the fungal form, but when it is inhaled into the warmer temperature of a body cavity (dog's or man's) it ...

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