Isolation and identification of yeast flora from genital tract in healthy female camels (Camelus dromedarius)

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 183-186

  Shokri, Hojjatollah ^a   Khosravi, Alireza ^a   Sharifzadeh, Aghil ^a   Tootian, Zahra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Candida; Candida zeylanoides; Dromedary camel; Genital tract; Yeast flora

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL;

ARTICLE; AUREOBASIDIUM; CAMEL; CAMELUS DROMEDARIUS; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ZEYLANOIDES; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENITAL SYSTEM; GEOTRICHUM; KLUYVEROMYCES; MATING; NONHUMAN; PROTOTHECA; RHODOTORULA; TRICHOSPORON; YEAST;

AGING; ANIMALS; CAMELS; CANDIDA; CERVIX UTERI; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRYPTOCOCCUS; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; IRAN; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TRICHOSPORON; UTERUS; VAGINA; YEASTS;

AUREOBASIDIUM; CAMELIDAE; CAMELUS DROMEDARIUS; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ZEYLANOIDES; GEOTRICHUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; KLUYVEROMYCES; MAMMALIA; PROTOTHECA;

EID: 77954815411     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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