author(s)
Chandrahas Sannat, Md. Osamah Kalim, SD Hirpurkar, Nidhi Rawat, Dhananjay Jolhe, Amit Kumar Gupta, Poornima Gumasta and Mrunali V Kamble

abstract
The present investigation was conducted to identify the causal agent of skin infection in the dog. Skin scrapings and plucked hair samples were collected from a skin lesion of affected dog and were subjected to direct microscopic examination and fungal culture. Direct microscopic examination revealed the presence of ectothrix spores and arthrospores in hair and skin scrapings, respectively. On Saboraud dextrose agar, cottony spreading colonies with yellowish pigmentation were observed which showed large thick walled macroconidia on lactophenol cotton blue staining. Microscopic examination and cultural characteristics were suggestive of Microsporum canis. Dog was recovered successfully after concurrent treatment with griseofulvin @250 mg orally for 10 days and topical application of clotrimazole-neomycin ointment.