Disseminated Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection in a persian cat

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B: Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 464-466

  Knippel, A ^a,b   Hetzel, U ^a,b   Baumgartner W ^a,c  

^a MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAT; CAT DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPH NODE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PATHOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; LYMPH NODES; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; FELIS CATUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE;

EID: 11144305206     PISSN: 09311793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0450.2004.00803.x     Document Type: Article

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