Isolation and characterization of a strain of Lichtheimia corymbifera (ex Absidia corymbifera) from a case of bovine abortion

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Piancastelli, Chiara ^a   Ghidini, Francesca ^a   Donofrio, Gaetano ^a   Jottini, Stefano ^a   Taddei, Simone ^a   Cavirani, Sandro ^a   Cabassi, Clotilde S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ABSIDIA; ARTICLE; COW; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HISTOLOGY; MATERNAL BLOOD; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MUCORALES; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEROLOGY; SPORANGIUM; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MUCORMYCOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VETERINARY ABORTION;

ABSIDIA CORYMBIFERA; ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; FUNGI; MUCORALES; ZYGOMYCETES;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ABORTION, VETERINARY; ABSIDIA; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 71949099775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-7-138     Document Type: Article

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