Lobomycosis in offshore bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), North Carolina

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 588-590

  Rotstein, David S ^a,b,f   Burdett, Leslie G ^c   McLellan, William ^d   Schwacke, Lori ^a   Rowles, Teri ^a   Terio, Karen A ^e   Schultz, Stacy ^e   Pabst, Ann ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 28S;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; BRONCHOINTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CESTODIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA ISOLATION; FUNGUS; HEPATITIS; LACAZIA LOBOI; LOBOMYCOSIS; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MYCOSIS; NECROTIZING ADRENALITIS; NECROTIZING HEPATITIS; NONHUMAN; PELAGIC ZONE; PNEUMONIA; RETROPERITONEAL CESTODIASIS; SINUSITIS; SWIMMING; TOXOPLASMA; UNITED STATES; VERMINOUS PTERYGOID SINUSITIS;

ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DERMATOMYCOSES; DNA, FUNGAL; ECOSYSTEM; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; ONYGENALES;

EID: 65349180949     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1504.081358     Document Type: Article

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