The epidemiological scenario of feline sporotrichosis in Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 392-393

  Pereira, Sandro Antonio ^a   Gremião, Isabella Dib Ferreira ^a   Kitada, Amanda Akemi Braga ^a   Boechat, Jéssica Sepulveda ^a   Viana, Paula Gonçalves ^a   Schubach, Tânia Maria Pacheco ^a  

^a Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cat; Epidemiology; Sporothrix spp; Sporotrichosis; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CAT; DERMATOMYCOSIS; FELINE MODEL; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOAD; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SANITATION; SKIN DEFECT; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

EID: 84905185206     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0037-8682-0092-2013     Document Type: Article

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