Phaeohyphomycosis in a Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia) due to Cladophialophora bantiana

Journal of Comparative Pathology

Volumn 134, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 245-248

  Janovsky, M ^a   Grone A ^a   Ciardo, D ^b   Vollm J ^c   Burnens, A ^a   Fatzer, R ^a   Bacciarini, L N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Zoo Basel Postfach   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cladophialophora bantiana; fungal infection; phaeohyphomycosis; snow leopard; spinal meningitis; Uncia uncia

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLADOPHIALOPHORA BANTIANA; DEFECATION DISORDER; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FELIDAE; FEMALE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HINDLIMB; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MENINGITIS; MICTURITION DISORDER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARALYSIS; PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SPASTICITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; ASCOMYCOTA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; FELIDAE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PARALYSIS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S;

ANIMALIA; CLADOPHIALOPHORA BANTIANA; FELIDAE; FUNGI; UNCIA UNCIA;

EID: 33645887537     PISSN: 00219975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcpa.2005.09.006     Document Type: Article

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