Fungal diseases of ferrets

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Exotic Animal Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 435-448

  Greenacre, Cheryl B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CORTISONE; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; GRISEOFULVIN; ITRACONAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; KETOCONAZOLE; LUFENURON; MICONAZOLE; NITROGEN; PROGRAM; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; SHAMPOO; SULFONAMIDE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ABSIDIA; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG PENETRATION; FEMALE; FERRET; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; ZOONOSIS;

ABSIDIA; AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; ANIMALIA; BLASTOMYCES; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; MUSTELA; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII;

EID: 0037672727     PISSN: 10949194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1094-9194(03)00007-0     Document Type: Review

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