Distribution of Malassezia organisms on the skin of unaffected psittacine birds and psittacine birds with feather-destructive behavior

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 216-221

  Preziosi, Diane E ^a,b   Morris, Daniel O ^a   Johnston, Matthew S ^a,c   Rosenthal, Karen L ^a   O'Shea, Kathleen ^a   Rankin, Shelley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Veterinary Specialists of Alaska   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; SABOURAUD DEXTROSE AGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; FEATHER DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DERMATOMYCOSES; DNA, FUNGAL; FEATHERS; MALASSEZIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSITTACIFORMES; SKIN;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; PSITTACIFORMES;

EID: 30744445733     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.228.2.216     Document Type: Article

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