Pulmonary hyalohyphomycosis caused by Fusarium spp in a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempi): An immunohistochemical study

New Zealand Veterinary Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 150-152

  Oros J ^a   Delgado, C ^b   Fernandez L ^a   Jensen, H E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fusarium; Hyalohyphomycosis; Immunohistochemistry; Lepidochelys kempi; Reptile; Sea turtle

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; GEOTRICHUM CANDIDUM; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG MYCOSIS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PULMONARY HYALOHYPHOMYCOSIS; SAMPLE; SCEDOSPORIUM APIOSPERMUM; SEA; STAINING; TURTLE; ZYGOMYCETES;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHELONIIDAE; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; GALACTOMYCES GEOTRICHUM; GEOTRICHUM; LEPIDOCHELYS KEMPII; MUCORALES; PSEUDALLESCHERIA BOYDII; REPTILIA; SCEDOSPORIUM; TESTUDINES; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 2942731289     PISSN: 00480169     EISSN: 11760710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00480169.2004.36420     Document Type: Article

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