Pulmonary mycobacteriosis caused by Mycobacterium haemophilum and M marinum in a royal python

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 220, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1661-1663

  Hernandez Divers, Stephen J ^a,c   Shearer, David ^b  

^a Exotic Animal Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b Finn Pathologists   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; BOIDAE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; LUNG; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0039484133     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2002.220.1661     Document Type: Article

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