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Ringworm is a common zoonotic disease in New Zealand. Of the several zoophilic species of dermatophytes, the, most frequently encountered and most important from a public health viewpoint in this country is Microsporum canis. CitationMarples (1951) considered that about 40% of scalp and body ringworm of children was due to contact with cats and she was later able to demonstrate a cat source of infection in nearly one-third of families with ringworm-infected children (CitationMarples, 1956). CitationHill (1959) considered cats to be responsible for 63% of human infections and the most frequent species of dermatophyte isolated from human infections by CitationSmith et al. (1969) was M. canis (29%).