Phaeohyphomycoses, emerging opportunistic diseases in animals

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-35

  Seyedmousavi, S ^a   Guillot, J ^b   de Hoog, G S ^c,d,e,f  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^c CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^f SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIDULAFUNGIN; CASPOFUNGIN; FLUCONAZOLE; ISAVUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; POSACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; AMPHIBIAN DISEASE; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANNELID; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CAT; CLADOSPORIOSIS; CLADOSPORIUM; CRUSTACEAN DISEASE; DOG; EXOPHIALA; FISH; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INVERTEBRATE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS; POULTRY; REPTILE; TURTLE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FUNGI; PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CHAETOTHYRIALES; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872201642     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00065-12     Document Type: Article

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