Isolation of Cryptococcus species including C. neoformans from cloaca of pigeons

Mycoses

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 421-424

  Rosario, I ^a   Hermoso De Mendoza, M ^b   Deniz S ^a   Soro, G ^c   Alamo I ^d   Acosta, B ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c Arinaga Veterinary Hospital   (Spain)

^d Dr Negrin University Hospital   (Spain)

Author keywords

C. neoformans var. neoformans; Cryptococcosis; Cryptococcus spp.; Pigeon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLOACA; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS ALBIDUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS LAURENTTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS UNIGUTTULATUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS ALBIDUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS LAURENTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. NEOFORMANS; FILOBASIDIUM UNIGUTTULATUM;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CARRIER STATE; CLOACA; COLUMBIDAE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS;

EID: 33644695689     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2005.01153.x     Document Type: Article

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