Fungal Diagnostics: Current Techniques and Future Trends

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Small Animal Practice

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 373-392

  Dial, Sharon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; BLASTOMYCOSIS; BONE BIOPSY; BONE INFECTION; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DRUG RESPONSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGUS CULTURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMYCOSIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; LUNG MYCOSIS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FUNGI; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MYCOSES;

EID: 33847244885     PISSN: 01955616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2006.11.002     Document Type: Review

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