Feline leprosy: Two different clinical syndromes

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-59

  Malik, R ^a   Hughes, M S ^b   James, G ^c   Martin, P ^a   Wigney, D I ^a   Canfield, P J ^a   Chen, S C A ^c   Mitchell, D H ^c   Love, D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMOXICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOFAZIMINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ENROFLOXACIN; FORMALDEHYDE; HEMATOXYLIN; IRON; LEPROSTATIC AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AGE; AGED; AMPLICON; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BASE PAIRING; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; EPITHELIOID CELL; FEMALE; GENETICS; GRANULOMATOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; LEPROSY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAEMURIUM; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RNA SEQUENCE; RURAL AREA; SKIN GRANULOMA; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN NODULE; SKIN ULCER; STAINING; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

BACILLI; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAEMURIUM;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOFAZIMINE; FEMALE; LEPROSTATIC AGENTS; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFAMPIN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 0036010733     PISSN: 1098612X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jfms.2001.0151     Document Type: Article

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