Case reports: Subcutaneous Mycoleptodiscus indicus infection in an immunosuppressed dog

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3008-3011

  Metry, Catherine A ^a   Hoien Dalen, Patricia S ^a   Maddox, Carol W ^a   Thompson, Elizabeth H ^b   Sutton, Deanna A ^b   Romanelli, Anna M ^b   Wickes, Brian L ^b   MacNeill, Amy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFALEXIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ENROFLOXACIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; ITRACONAZOLE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; TERBINAFINE; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DOG; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MOULD; MYCOLEPTODISCUS INDICUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; SEPSIS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ASCOMYCETES; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG DISEASE; GENETICS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOSIS; PATHOLOGY; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; MYCOLEPTODISCUS;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

EID: 77955463145     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02368-09     Document Type: Article

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