The staff of the Biotechnology Laboratory-Diagnostic Center of the Institute of Experimental Veterinary Science of Siberia and the Far East, together with the colleagues from the S.Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical Research University, have developed and published in Russian and Kazakh, under a scientific cooperation agreement, methodological recommendations "Laboratory Methods for Detecting and Identifying Pathogens of Opportunistic Yeast Mycoses of the Skin in Farm Animals." Over the past two decades, an increase in the incidence of difficult-to-treat fungal diseases caused by opportunistic and pathogenic fungi has been recorded in various species of farm, domestic, and wild animals.
These guidelines present new scientific data on the pathogens that cause opportunistic yeast skin mycoses in farm animals. The article describes the main methods for laboratory diagnosis of the diseases caused by this group of microscopic fungi in veterinary medicine. The recommendations will be useful for graduate students, staff of research institutions and diagnostic laboratories, as well as undergraduate and graduate students studying in veterinary medicine.