Verruconis gallopava Infections in Animals: From Environmental Exposure to Clinical Disease and Diagnosis

This review focuses on Verruconis gallopava as an underrecognized fungal pathogen in veterinary medicine and covers its environmental distribution and thermotolerance, published cases of infection in animals, clinical signs and pathological lesions relevant to differential diagnosis, antifungal susceptibility, and diagnostic approaches used for species identification. Findings from the published reports are summarized to provide veterinarians and veterinary laboratory personnel with an accessible overview of this uncommon pathogen, offer general guidance for its recognition, and highlight its potential relevance in the differential diagnosis of fungal infections, particularly in poultry.