Successful treatment of a sinonasal cryptococcal granuloma in a horse

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 234, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 509-513

  Cruz, V Claudia ^a   Sommardahl, Carla S ^a   Chapman, Elizabeth A ^a   Fry, Michael M ^a   Schumacher, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ENILCONAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NOSE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; FLUCONAZOLE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; IMIDAZOLES; NOSE DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EQUIDAE; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 62149149637     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.234.4.509     Document Type: Article

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