Thoracic and abdominal blastomycosis in a horse

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 214, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1357-1360

  Toribio, Ramiro E ^a   Kohn, Catherine W ^a   Lawrence, Alan E ^a   Hardy, Joanne ^a   Hutt, Julie A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CASE REPORT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARACENTESIS; THORAX; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SURGERY; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ANIMALS; ASCITIC FLUID; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; PARACENTESIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THORACIC DISEASES; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; THORAX;

EID: 0033124673     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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