Transplacental infection with Blastomyces dermatitidis is rare in humans and unknown in the dog. A Doberman pinscher bitch was diagnosed with blastomycosis 25 days after whelping. Clinical signs were noted after whelping and were progressive. All 9 pups were free of clinical signs and had negative urine Blastomyces antigen tests at 6 weeks of age and remained free of signs of illness through 11...

Since the description by Gilchrist,~ in 1894, of blastomycetic dermatitis, and the report by Gilchrist and Stokes$ of the second case, two more instances have been recorded, one by my assistant, It. G. Wells,§ which like the two pre~ious cases resembled lupus vulgaris clinically, and the other and fourth by R. I~tessler.[] The latter's case began as a pimple, which gradually enlarged and formed...