Relative sensitivity of hair pluckings and exudate microscopy for the diagnosis of canine demodicosis

Veterinary Dermatology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 138-141

  Saridomichelakis, Manolis N ^a,b   Koutinas, Alexander F ^a   Farmaki, Rania ^a   Leontides, Leonidas S ^b   Kasabalis, Dimitris ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; EVALUATION; EXUDATE; FEMALE; HAIR; INFESTATION; MALE; MITE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HAIR; MALE; MITE INFESTATIONS; MITES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 33847769764     PISSN: 09594493     EISSN: 13653164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3164.2007.00570.x     Document Type: Article

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