EHINOSPORIDIUM. 373 



307. Rhinosporidium sp. 



■fRhinosporidium sp., Rao, 1938, p. 263. 



Probably identical with R. seeberi from man. 



Remarks. — According to Rao (1938), Rhinosporidiosis was 

 recorded a few years ago affecting two buUocks, one cow, 

 and one pony in Madras, and has since been diagnosed in 

 eighteen buUocks and one pony in the same province. Rhino- 

 sporidiosis in bovines appears so far to have been reported 

 from the Madras Presidency only. The lesions are found 

 in the nose, and the presence of a trauma in the nose appears 

 to be necessary for the development of the lesions. 



Rao thinks that the causal organism may be the same 

 as in man, and suggests that the infection to man and animals 

 may be through the dust raised while ploughing fields manured 

 with bovine dung, as a large number of cases are met with in 

 man and cattle engaged in agriculture. 



Habitat. — Nasal cavities of Bos indicus Linn. : Madras 

 Presidency. 



