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HYPHOMYCOSIS DESTRUENS EQUI, also called swamp cancer or bursattee, is a granulomatous disease commonly of the lower leg of the horse and is a well known condition in the tropics and subtropics1. The associated fungus, ‘Hyphomyces destruens’, has neither been legitimately described nor satisfactorily placed in any group of fungi except broadly in the Phycomycetes, on the grounds of the morphology of the hyphae in tissue and culture.
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AUSTWICK, P., COPLAND, J. Swamp cancer. Nature 250, 84 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/250084a0
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