What is your diagnosis? Pythium insidiosum or lagenidium sp.?

Veterinary Clinical Pathology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-

  Mendoza, Leonel ^a   Vilela, Raquel ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAGENIDIUM; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM INSIDIOSUM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DOG; DOG DISEASE; INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAGENIDIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PYTHIUM;

ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; INFECTION; LAGENIDIUM; PYTHIUM;

EID: 70350726372     PISSN: 02756382     EISSN: 1939165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-165X.2009.00170.x     Document Type: Letter

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