User talk:Adamczy1/sandbox

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Hi, I'm going to leave some feedback on your article here. I hope you find it helpful.

Content Suggestions:
 * First of all, you mentioned in your first point that you still want to add who discovered and named your fungus. To find this information, I suggest using Index fungorum, which usually provides a date and the name of the person credited with its identification or classification.
 * While you're there, you can also use index fungorum to find out the exact taxonomic classification of your fungus and make a taxobox for your article, which you haven't yet. The mark-up needed to make a taxobox is shown on our course wiki page. From a quick search on Index Fungorum, it seems your taxonomic categories are (in reverse order): Trichophyton, Arthrodermataceae, Onygenales, Eurotiomycetidae, Eurotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.
 * I would suggest explaining the term dermatophyte somewhere early on in your article, (and that Trichophyton is one of the 3 common dermatophyte genera, with the others being Epidermophyton and Microsporum), since you do not mention that T. verrucosum is a dermatophyte in your introduction, or at least hyperlink to the wiki page on dermatophytes.

Suggestions for additional sections:
 * add a section on the economic significance of the fungus. Particularly since it infects cattle, you could mention its financial consequences for agribusiness, and provide some figures
 * you mention misdiagnosis in humans: so maybe add a section on identification - are there biochemical tests that distinguish between T. verrucosum and other species in the trichophyton genus or other dermatophytes in general? (see suggested source below for information on this)

Suggested sources:
 * I don't remember all the specific book titles, but while looking for books on my fungus, I saw a lot of books on fungi in cattle in the Gerstein library, under sections SF and SB, and also in the Earth Sciences library under QK.
 * One that I do remember that is very relevant to your topic was called "Animal Ringworm in Public Health - Diagnosis and Nature" by L. K. Georg, which is available in Gerstein.
 * Pathogenic Fungi in Humans and Animals, by D.H. Howard also includes several pages mentioning T. verrucosum, and in particular mentions that there are specific " Trichophyton agars " that are used to differentiate between various species of Trichophyton, so you could use this source to help you write a section on identification / detection.

I hope this was helpful!

Lena8F (talk) 20:38, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Dermatophyte evolution
http://dermatophytes.reviberoammicol.com/p030043.pdf