Epidemiological Findings and Laboratory Evaluation of Sporotrichosis: A Description of 103 Cases in Cats and Dogs in Southern Brazil

Mycopathologia

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 265-273

  Madrid, Isabel Martins ^a   Mattei, Antonella Souza ^a   Fernandes, Cristina Gevehr ^a   de Oliveira Nobre, Márcia ^a   Meireles, Mário Carlos Araújo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cats; Dogs; Epidemiology; Mycosis; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CAT; CAT DISEASE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII;

EID: 84857909433     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-011-9509-4     Document Type: Article

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