Pythiosis in Africa

We report the first case of pythiosis from Africa in an 8-month-old dog with a chronic and ulcerative cutaneous lesion. The etiologic agent belonged to the genus Pythium. Phylogenetic analysis placed the isolate in a sister group to the other P. insidiosum strains. However, the isolate may belong to...

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Autores principales: Rivierre, Christine, Laprie, Caroline, Guiard-Marigny, Olivier, Bergeaud, Patrick, Berthelemy, Madeleine, Guillot, Jacques
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15757572
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1103.040697
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author Rivierre, Christine
Laprie, Caroline
Guiard-Marigny, Olivier
Bergeaud, Patrick
Berthelemy, Madeleine
Guillot, Jacques
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description We report the first case of pythiosis from Africa in an 8-month-old dog with a chronic and ulcerative cutaneous lesion. The etiologic agent belonged to the genus Pythium. Phylogenetic analysis placed the isolate in a sister group to the other P. insidiosum strains. However, the isolate may belong to a new Pythium species.
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spelling pubmed-32982692012-03-12 Pythiosis in Africa Rivierre, Christine Laprie, Caroline Guiard-Marigny, Olivier Bergeaud, Patrick Berthelemy, Madeleine Guillot, Jacques Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch We report the first case of pythiosis from Africa in an 8-month-old dog with a chronic and ulcerative cutaneous lesion. The etiologic agent belonged to the genus Pythium. Phylogenetic analysis placed the isolate in a sister group to the other P. insidiosum strains. However, the isolate may belong to a new Pythium species. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3298269/ /pubmed/15757572 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1103.040697 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Rivierre, Christine
Laprie, Caroline
Guiard-Marigny, Olivier
Bergeaud, Patrick
Berthelemy, Madeleine
Guillot, Jacques
Pythiosis in Africa
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title_full_unstemmed Pythiosis in Africa
title_short Pythiosis in Africa
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15757572
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1103.040697
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