Pulmonary Phialemonium curvatum phaeohyphomycosis in a Standard Poodle dog

Medical Mycology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 355-359

  Sutton, D A ^a   Wickes, B L ^b   Thompson, E H ^a   Rinaldi, M G ^a   Roland, R M ^c   Libal, M C ^c   Russell, K ^c   Gordon, S ^c  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canine; Phialemonium curvatum; Systemic phaeohyphomycosis

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B; AZATHIOPRINE; CASPOFUNGIN; ENROFLOXACIN; FLUCYTOSINE; ITRACONAZOLE; POSACONAZOLE; PREDNISONE; SOMATOSTATIN; TIMENTIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ANIMAL LAMENESS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOG DISEASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DYSPNEA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HYPHOMYCETES; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PANCREATITIS; PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS; PHIALEMONIUM CURVATUM; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMONIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN DEFECT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; THORACOCENTESIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VASCULITIS;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, FUNGAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; PHIALEMONIUM CURVATUM;

EID: 42449140667     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780701861470     Document Type: Article

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