Chrysosporium sp. infection in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2383-2384

  Allender, Matthew C ^a   Dreslik, Michael ^a   Wylie, Sarah ^a   Phillips, Christopher ^a   Wylie, Daniel B ^a   Maddox, Carol ^a   Delaney, Martha A ^a   Kinsel, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

AUTOPSY; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHRYSOSPORIUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; LETTER; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; ORBIT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN SWELLING; SKIN ULCER; SNAKE; SWELLING;

EID: 84930483539     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1712.110240     Document Type: Letter

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