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Equine pythiosis in Egypt: clinicopathological findings, detection, identification and genotyping of Pythium insidiosum.
Veterinary dermatology - 1 Aug 2020
Tartor Yasmine H, Hamad Mohamed H, Abouzeid Nasser Z, El-Belkemy Farouk A
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BACKGROUND: Equine pythiosis is an emerging, devastating disease that is hard to treat. The tumour-like nodular skin masses grow rapidly and the outcome is generally fatal, and thus early diagnosis and intervention are important. OBJECTIVES: (i) To highlight the clinical, histological and haematological findings in pythiosis, and (ii) to evaluate the efficacy of direct sample multiplex-PCR targeting the single...
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