Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis infection in a pet parrot

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 617-619

  Shitaye, Edmealem Jembere ^a,b   Grymova, Veronika ^c   Grym, Martin ^c   Halouzka, Roman ^b   Horvathova, Alica ^a   Moravkova, Monika ^a   Beran, Vladimir ^a   Svobodova, Jana ^d   Dvorska Bartosova, Lenka ^a   Pavlik, Ivo ^a  

^a VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^c Veterinary Clinic AvetuM   (Czech Republic)

^d Zdravotniho ustavu se sidlem v Ostrave   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ALDIFAL; ENROFLOXACIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASCARIDIA; ASCITES; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIRD DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MELENA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM HOMINISSUIS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM NONCHROMOGENICUM; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PARROT; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPLENOMEGALY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PARROTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TUBERCULOSIS, AVIAN;

EID: 65349131948     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1504.081003     Document Type: Letter

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