Disseminated Mycobacterium avium Complex Infection in a Cat: Presumptive Diagnosis by Blood Smear Examination

Veterinary Clinical Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 85-89

  Latimer, Kenneth S ^a   Jameson, Perry H ^a,b   Crowell, Wayne A ^a   Robert Duncan, J ^a   Pamela Currin, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Coast Carolina Vet Int Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Blood smear; Bone marrow aspirate; Cat; Disseminated mycobacteriosis; Feline leukemia virus; Leukocytes; Mycobacterium avium complex

Indexed keywords

BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; FELIDAE; FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; FELIS CATUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX;

EID: 0348139703     PISSN: 02756382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-165X.1997.tb00716.x     Document Type: Article

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