Epidemiology and risk factors for dermatophytoses in rabbit farms

Medical Mycology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 975-980

  Cafarchia, C ^a   Camarda, A ^a   Coccioli, C ^a   Figueredo, L A ^a   Circella, E ^a   Danesi, P ^b   Capelli, G ^b   Otranto, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dermatophytoses; Microsporum canis; Rabbit farms; Risk factors; Trichophyton mentagrophytes

Indexed keywords

ENILCONAZOLE; SULFUR;

AGE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; DERMATOPHYTE; DERMATOPHYTOSIS; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMIDITY; ITALY; MICROSPORUM CANIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; RABBIT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE; TRICHOPHYTON MENTAGROPHYTES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VAPORIZATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; DERMATOMYCOSES; HUMIDITY; ITALY; RABBITS; RISK FACTORS; TEMPERATURE; TRICHOPHYTON;

ANIMALIA; ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; MICROSPORUM CANIS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 77957737270     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693781003652620     Document Type: Article

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