Aspergillus versicolor, a new causative agent of canine disseminated aspergillosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 187-191

  Zhang, Shuping ^a   Corapi, Wayne ^a   Quist, Erin ^a   Griffin, Sarah ^a   Zhang, Michael ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS VERSICOLOR; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; PARAPLEGIA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MYCOLOGY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPONDYLITIS;

ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; ASPERGILLUS VERSICOLOR; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 84555178933     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05388-11     Document Type: Article

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