Pneumocystosis in wild small mammals from California

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 408-412

  Laakkonen, Juha ^a   Fisher, Robert N ^b   Case, Ted J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung parasites; Pneumocystosis; Rodents; Shrews

Indexed keywords

CERVIDAE; CHAETODIPUS CALIFORNICUS; CHRYSOSPORIUM; CHRYSOSPORIUM SP.; CRICETINAE; EMMONSIA; HEPATOZOON; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS CALIFORNICUS; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA FUSCIPES; NOTIOSOREX CRAWFORDI; PEROMYSCUS BOYLII; PEROMYSCUS CALIFORNICUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; REITHRODONTOMYS; REITHRODONTOMYS MEGALOTIS; RODENTIA; SOREX ORNATUS; SORICIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; COCCIDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MURIDAE; PARASITOLOGY; PEROMYSCUS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RODENT; RODENT DISEASE; SHREW; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CALIFORNIA; HAEMOSPORIDA; LUNG; MURIDAE; PEROMYSCUS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SHREWS;

EID: 0035319418     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-37.2.408     Document Type: Article

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