“…Some of the dermatophytes are isolated from the soil [11] and hence, infection can also be acquired from such saprobic reservoirs [3]. The disease is encountered in humans and also in many species of animals, such ascat, dog, cattle, camel, goat, buffalo, sheep, horse, pig, deer, monkey, bear, rabbit, etc [3,7,[12][13][14][15][16][17]. The paucity of published available information on animal ringworm in Meerut region of Uttar Pradesh,India prompted the author to elucidate the etiologic role of dermatophytes in cutaneous lesions of an adult bovine.…”