Disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection following renal transplantation in a cat

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 222, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1097-1101+1077

  Griffin, Alison ^a   Newton, Alisa L ^a   Aronson, Lillian R ^a   Brown, Dorothy Cimino ^a   Hess, Rebecka S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CYCLOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; DOPAMINE; ENROFLOXACIN; ISOPRENALINE; PHYTOMENADIONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BONE MARROW; CAT; DIARRHEA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LARGE INTESTINE; LETHARGY; LIVER; LUNG; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPH NODES; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX;

EID: 0242416596     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2003.222.1097     Document Type: Article

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