%0 Journal Article %T Isolamento de dermat¨®fitos em animais dom¨¦sticos em Vila Real, Portugal %A Coelho %A A.C. %A Alegria %A N. %A Rodrigues %A J. %J Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterin¨˘ria e Zootecnia %D 2008 %I Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais %R 10.1590/S0102-09352008000400035 %X during a six-year period from 2000 to 2006, 257 animal samples (fur and skin desquamation) were submitted to mycological examination in the laboratory of microbiology at the universidade de tr¨˘s-os-montes e alto douro, vila real, portugal. dermathophytes were cultured from 38 of 257 (14.8%) specimens. chi-squared test was used to compare differences between independent groups. the most frequent isolated dermathophyte was microsporum canis (47.4%). other isolated dermathophytes were: trichophyton mentagrophytes var. mentagrophytes (31.5%), microsporum gypseum (15.8%), and microsporum nanum (5.3%). the rates of dermathophytes isolation were 8.4% in dogs; 21.3% in cats; 66.7% in rabbits; and in 11.1% in horses. %K dermathophytes %K domestic animals %K diagnosis %K isolation. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-09352008000400035&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en