Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis infection in horses

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1328-1329

  Kriz, Petr ^a   Jahn, Petr ^b   Bezdekova, Barbora ^b   Blahutkova, Mariana ^a   Mrlik, Vojtech ^a   Slana, Iva ^a   Pavlik, Ivo ^a  

^a VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOXIDECTIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COLT; CYATHUS; CZECH REPUBLIC; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM TUMOR; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT DURATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CZECH REPUBLIC; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77956044070     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1608.100097     Document Type: Letter

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