Successful management of colonic pythiosis in two dogs in Thailand using antifungal therapy [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2022 Gastrointestinal pythiosis is a severe, progressive and often a fatal disease, which is caused by the aquatic pathogen Pythium insidiosum. Treatment is challenging due to the disease's resistance to antifungal drugs.
Pornphan Sukanan +4 more
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History and Perspective of Immunotherapy for Pythiosis [PDF]
Vaccines, 2021 The fungus-like microorganism Pythium insidiosum causes pythiosis, a life-threatening infectious disease increasingly reported worldwide. Antimicrobial drugs are ineffective. Radical surgery is an essential treatment. Pythiosis can resume post-surgically.
Hanna Yolanda, Theerapong Krajaejun
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TREATMENT AND OUTCOME OF HORSES WITH CUTANEOUS PYTHIOSIS, AND META-ANALYSIS OF SIMILAR REPORTS [PDF]
Slovenian Veterinary Research, 2019 Pythiosis is reported to be one of the most life-threatening infections of people and animals in tropical, subtropical and temperate areas worldwide. Infection can result from ingesting zoospores of Pythium insidiosum organism or from contact with water
Hoda Elkhenany +5 more
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A Review: Antimicrobial Therapy for Human Pythiosis [PDF]
Antibiotics, 2022 Human pythiosis is associated with poor prognosis with significant mortality caused by Pythium insidiosum. Antimicrobials’ in vitro and in vivo results against P. insidiosum are inconsistent.
Sadeep Medhasi +2 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 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.
Bergeaud, Patrick +5 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005 Pythiosis, caused by Pythium insidiosum, occurs in humans and animals and is acquired from aquatic environments that harbor the emerging pathogen. Diagnosis is difficult because clinical and histopathologic features are not pathognomonic.
Sandra de Moraes Gimenes Bosco +8 more
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Functional characterization of macrophages and change of Th1/Th2 balance in patients with pythiosis after Pythium insidiosum antigen immunotherapy [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThere has been limited research into the role of the Pythium insidiosum antigen (PIA) in modulating immune response in patients with pythiosis. This study investigated the balance of T helper type 2 (Th2) and T helper type 1 (Th1) responses after ...
Sadeep Medhasi +5 more
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The Use of Mefenoxam to Treat Cutaneous and Gastrointestinal Pythiosis in Dogs: A Retrospective Study [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2023 Pythium insidiosum, an aquatic oomycete with pathogenic potential in mammals, causes gastrointestinal and cutaneous disease in dogs. Mefenoxam, an agricultural anti-oomycotic compound, has a demonstrated the ability to inhibit P.
Phillip Billings +3 more
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Molecular Detection of Pythium insidiosum in Cutaneous Lesions of Horses from Northeastern Brazil [PDF]
AnimalsPythiosis is an underestimated and neglected disease in Brazil, both in horse breeders and in horses. The molecular detection of P. insidiosum in horses in the Brazilian Northeast represents a milestone in the epidemiology of equine pythiosis in the ...
Artur Bibiano de Vasconcelos +8 more
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Development of lateral flow immunochromatographic assay with Anti-Pythium insidiosum antibodies for point-of-care testing of vascular pythiosis [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe pathogenic oomycete Pythium insidiosum causes a fatal infectious illness known as pythiosis, impacting humans and certain animals in numerous countries in the tropics and subtropics.
Panwad Tongchai +4 more
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