Identification of a novel hemotropic mycoplasma in a splenectomized dog with hemic neoplasia

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 224, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1946-1951+1930

  Sykes, Jane E ^a   Bailiff, Nathan L ^a   Ball, Louise M ^a   Foreman, Oded ^a   George, Jeanne W ^a   Fry, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEMATEMESIS; JAUNDICE; LETHARGY; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MELENA; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PALLOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYDIPSIA; SEROLOGY; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; SYMPTOM; TACHYCARDIA; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FATAL OUTCOME; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC; MALE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOSIS;

ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; CANIS FAMILIARIS; COCCOIDEA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMATALES;

EID: 2942528694     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2004.224.1946     Document Type: Article

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