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concurrent infection with Torulopsis glabrata in a dog. Pre-disposing factors included a history of chronic skin disease of obscure origin treated with antibiotics and/or corticoste-roids for 6 months. Laboratory findings, sebaceous gland atrophy, epidermal atrophy, and epidermal hyperkeratosis were all findings that were consistent with those of cortico-steroid effects. The immune status of this dog was unknown, but immunosuppression due to prolonged corticosteroid therapy was likely. Although there was no history ofa punc-ture wound or other cutaneous trauma, the skin is the most probable site of origin of the infection, with subsequent he-matogenous or lymphatic dissemination to other organs. Or-ganisms compatible with T. glabrata were identified in lung sections, and T. glabrata was cultured from multiple sites. This infection may have represented a terminal fungemia in a dog with fatal primary disseminated phaeohyphomycosis. Acknowledgemen