Table 1.

Fungal microflora detected in commercial dry feed for dogs.

Location	Number of Samples (n)	Major Fungi Identified	Positive Samples (%)	Citation
Argentina	12	Aspergillus flavus, A. niger, Mucor globosus, M. plumbeus, M. racemosus, Rhizopus spp.	100	[11]
Brazil	180	A. flavus, A. candidus, A. flavipes, A. fumigatus, A. niger, A. ochraceus, A. parasiticus, Cladosporium spp., Fusarium spp., Mucor spp., Penicillium spp.	100	[22]
Brazil	34	Absidia spp., Aureobasidium spp., Alternaria spp., Aspergillus spp., Chrysonilia spp., Cladosporium spp., Emericella spp., Eurotium spp., Fusarium spp., Geotrichum spp., Monascus spp., Mucor spp., Olyptrichum spp., Paecilomyces spp., Penicillium spp., Phoma spp., Rhodotorula spp., Rhizopus spp., Scapulariopsis spp., Syncephalostrum spp., Tilletiopsis spp., Trichoderma spp., Wallemia spp., Yeasts	74	[23]
Brazil	60	Aspergillus spp., Fusarium spp., Penicillium spp., Rhizopus spp.	53.3	[24]
Poland	25	Aspergillus spp., Mucor spp., Penicillium spp.	52	[19]
Poland	20	Aspergillus spp., Penicillium spp., Rhizopus spp.	25	[21]
Poland	25	Aspergillus spp., Alternaria spp., Cladosporium spp., Fusarium spp., F. verticillioides., F. proliferatum	100	[18]
Portugal	20	A. niger, Mucor spp., Penicillium spp.	100	[25]
South Africa	20	A. flavus, A. fumigatus, A. parasiticus, F. graminearum, F. verticilloides, Penicillium spp.	100	[20]
United Kingdom	5	Absidia spp., Acremonium spp., Alternaria spp., Aspergillus spp., Cladosporium spp., Eurotium spp., Mucor spp., Pénicillium spp., Rhizopus spp., Syncephalastrum spp., Wallemia spp., yeasts.	100	[26]
Venezuela	4	Acremonium charticola, A. flavus, A. fumigatus, A. terreus, C. herbarum, F. poae, P. citrinum, P. expansum.	94	[27]