Systemic candidosis and concomitant aspergillosis and zygomycosis in two Amazon parakeets (Amazona aestiva)

Mycoses

Volumn 41, Issue 7-8, 1998, Pages 297-301

  Carrasco, L ^a   Gomez Villamandos J C ^a   Jensen, H E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Amazon parakeets; Amazona aestiva; Aspergillosis; Candidosis; Double mycosis; Parakeets; Zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ABSIDIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; AUTOPSY; BIRD; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GIANT CELL GRANULOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUCORMYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS; VASCULITIS; ZYGOMYCETES;

ABSIDIA; AMAZONA AESTIVA; ANIMALIA; ARATINGA; ASPERGILLUS; AVES; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 0031797764     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.1998.tb00342.x     Document Type: Article

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