JMM case reports.
Discontinued
Publisher:
SGM,
Frequency: Four no. a year
Country: England
Language: English
Author(s):
Society for General Microbiology,
Start Year:2014 - 2019
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 2053-3721 (Electronic) 2053-3721 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 101639133 |
| (OCoLC): | 871229213 |
| LCCN: | 2014243529 |
First confirmed case of nasal pythiosis in a horse in Thailand. Pythiosis is caused by , a fungus-like organism in the class . It can infect humans and a variety of animal species in tropical, subtropical and some temperate regions. Cases of animal pythiosis have occurred predominantly in horses in the skin and subcutaneous tissue at the limbs and in the ventral portion of thoracoabdominal wall - lesions in the nasal region are rarely reported. Moreover, although many human pythiosis cases have been reported in Thailand, no cases of animal pythiosis in Thailand have been reported. Methods: We report a case of pythiosis in a horse infected at the nasal cavi...