Cardiovascular involvement in 8 dogs with Blastomyces dermatitidis infection

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1351-1354

  Schmiedt, Chad ^a,f   Kellum, Heidi ^b   Legendre, Alfred M ^c   Gompf, Rebecca E ^c   Bright, Janice M ^c,d   Houle, Christopher D ^c,e   Schutten, Melissa ^a   Stepien, Rebecca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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

^e EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY LABORATORIES INC   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastomycosis; Cardiovascular infection; Dog; Heart block; Infectious myocarditis

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; ANIMALIA; BLASTOMYCES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; SYNCOPE;

EID: 33845700988     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1892/0891-6640(2006)20[1351:CIIDWB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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