Haemotropic mycoplasmas. What's their real significance in cats?

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 369-381

  Tasker, Séverine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAT; CAT DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYTHROCYTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; ERYTHROCYTES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMOMINUTUM; FELIDAE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOFELIS; MYCOPLASMATALES; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 77953764641     PISSN: 1098612X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfms.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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