studies on rhodotorula species Isolated from Human, Animals and Their Environment with Special Reference to Genotyping

This study was conducted on 1830 samples which were collected from human (100 samples of infected nails ofOnychomycosis), diseased animals (350 buffaloes and 290 cows) and apparently healthy animals (400 buffaloes and 285 cows).The samples collected from diseased case,s included mastiticmilk samples (150 buffaloes and 100 cows), rectal swabs fromanimals suffering from diarrhea (100 buffaloes and 90 cows),nasal swabs from animals showing nasal discharge (50 buffaloesand 50 cows) and vaginal swabs from animals suffering from anyreproductive disorders (50 buffaloes and 50 cows).The normal samples were collected from apparently healthyanimals including 100 samples from each type of normal milk, rectal, nasal and vaginal swabs of apparently healthy buffaloes,also 60 samples of normal milk from cows and 75 samples fromrectal, nasal and vaginal swabs of apparently healthy cows. Environmental samples included 225 samples which werecollected from environment of animal farms (90 air samples, 60 water samples and 75 soil samples) and 180 samples from different places surrounding human (60 samples from each type, air, water and soil).