Lobomycosis in man and lobomycosis-like disease in bottlenose dolphin, Venezuela

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1301-1303

  Bermudez, Luis ^a   Van Bressem, Marie Françoise ^b   Reyes Jaimes, Oscar ^c   Sayegh, Alejandro J ^a   Paniz Mondolfi, Alberto E ^c,d,e  

^a Cetacean Research Center   (Venezuela)

^b Peruvian Centre for Cetacean Research   (Peru)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

^d BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Ministerio del Poder Popular para el Trabajo y Seguridad Social Venezuela   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CASE REPORT; COASTAL WATERS; DERMATOMYCOSIS; FISHERMAN; HABITAT; HOST; HUMAN; LACAZIA LOBOI; LOBOMYCOSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; VENEZUELA;

ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DERMATOMYCOSES; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MARINE BIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ONYGENALES; VENEZUELA;

EID: 68049107388     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1508.090347     Document Type: Article

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