Toxoplasma gondii-like organisms in skin aspirates from a cat with disseminated protozoal infection

Veterinary Clinical Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 156-160

  Little, Liz ^a   Shokek, Amy ^a   Dubey, J P ^b   DeHeer, Heather Leigh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat; Cytology; Neospora; Skin; Toxoplasma

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; AUTOPSY; CAT; COUGHING; CYTOLOGY; DERMATITIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOG; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPEREMIA; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NONHUMAN; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; SKIN; SKIN NODULE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOMITING;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; NEOSPORA; NEOSPORA CANINUM; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 20444366224     PISSN: 02756382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-165X.2005.tb00030.x     Document Type: Article

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