Ringworm and wood

[darthchinchi]

Okay, so I have something I can't find any info on, other than a lot of people saying that wood and ringworm don't match, but no references on why.

The issue is with building wooden cages, and if the chinchilla gets ringworm, it's said that the entire cage has to go, as the ringworm can survive for a long time in the wood.
I searched in danish, and found one single article on ringworm in cows, and how it can survive for weeks if not months in the stables (so I'm guessing a lot of different building materials), and how the spores are immune to notmal cleaning.

Here, we build a lot of wooden cages, and people experience fungus (as we call it, I'm pretty sure it's ringworm), from time to time, but after treatment (sulphur powder in the sand), there's no issue with the animals getting fungus again after it's gone, and we don't throw out the cages every single time we see it.

On an other note, I've experienced fungus like 2 times in the last 25 years, maybe had a scare 1-2 times more where I put some sulphur powder in the sand as a precaution. 

If you wonder how much sulphur we but in the sand, here is the measurements:
5g sulphur powder
10g baby powder
1 kg sand/chinchilla dust

Any thoughts or actual evidense based information on ringworm survival in wood specifically?

[chinchillabean]

Hi.
From what I know, ringworm, a type of fungus survives on almost any porous surfaces such as wood (cotton, wool, metal and even plastic)
Once an animal or person is infected they infect everything they touch and can become re-contaminated over and over again.
To kill any fungus you typically use a disinfectant solution like bleach & hot water(1:10 ratio) or one supplied at animal supply stores. Obviously you wouldn't use bleach on a chinchilla lol but for wood
you may need to use boiling water to disinfect (above 100°c) if you want to avoid bleach
I hope that helps!

[moletteuk]

I wonder if there is any info on F10 effectiveness on wood.