Proliferative interstitial pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii infection, and immunodeficiency in an adult paso fino horse

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 607-611

  Franklin, Robert P ^a   Long, Maureen T ^a   MacNeill, Amy ^a   Alleman, Rick ^a   Giguère, Steeve ^a   Uhl, Elizabeth ^a   López Martinez, Alric ^a   Wilkerson, Melinda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PNEUMONIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0043233577     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-1676.2002.tb02396.x     Document Type: Article

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