Table 2.

Prevalence of fungal genera and species isolated from different regions of wild hedgehogs.

	Prevalence (%)
Mycobiota genus/specie	Spines		P value	Fur	P value		Overall
	Cranial area (Cr)	Caudal area (Cd)	Cr-Cd	ventral	Fur-Cr	Fur-Cd	prevalence
Absidia	2.2	3.3	ns	1.1	ns	ns	3.3
Acremonium	24.2	26.4	ns	20.9	ns	ns	40.7
Alternaria	47.3	36.3	0.013	39.6	ns	ns	64.8
Arthrinium	28.6	27.5	ns	35.2	ns	ns	42.9
Aphanocladium	0.0	0.0	—	1.1	—	—	1.1
Aspergillus  spp.	38.5	37.4	ns	34.1	ns	ns	54.9
A.   ochraceus	0.0	0.0	—	1.1	—	—	1.1
A.   flavus	5.5	5.5	ns	5.5	ns	ns	8.8
A.   niger	11.0	11.0	ns	5.5	ns	ns	17.6
Aureobasidium	1.1	3.3	ns	4.4	ns	ns	7.7
Chaetomium	4.4	5.5	ns	6.6	ns	ns	9.9
Cladosporium	59.3	52.7	ns	51.6	ns	ns	79.1
Epicoccum	1.1	0.0	—	0.0	—	—	1.1
Fusarium	11.0	8.8	ns	15.4	ns	ns	23.1
Mucor	11.0	14.3	ns	5.5	ns	0.039	17.6
Penicillium	59.3	48.4	ns	51.6	ns	ns	74.7
Phoma	0.0	0.0	—	1.1	—	—	1.1
Rhizopus	51.6	49.5	ns	28.6	0.001	0.02	63.7
Rhodotorula	1.1	3.3	ns	0.0	—	—	4.4
Saccharomyces	1.1	0.0	—	2.2	ns	—	3.3
Trichoderma	20.9	20.9	ns	7.7	0.002	0.002	24.2
Ulocladium	0.0	0.0	—	2.2	—	—	2.2

Ns: statistically not significant (P > 0.05).