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Cutaneous Pythiosis in 2 Dogs, Italy [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023 We report cutaneous pythiosis in 2 dogs in Italy that had recurrent exposure to the same freshwater habitat. Phylogenetic analysis placed the isolates within Pythium insidiosum complex cluster IV, corresponding to P. periculosum.
Andrea Peano +7 more
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Sublingual pythiosis in a cat [PDF]
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 2017 Background Pythiosis is a potentially fatal but non-contagious disease affecting humans and animals living in tropical and subtropical climates, but is also reasonably widespread in temperate climates, throughout the world.
Jessica Sonia Fortin +2 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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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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Needs assessment of a pythiosis continuing professional development program. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesBackgroundPythiosis is a rare disease with high mortality, with over 94% of cases reported from Thailand and India. Prompt diagnosis and surgery improves patient outcomes.
Surachai Leksuwankun +17 more
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Recent update in diagnosis and treatment of human pythiosis [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Human pythiosis is an infectious condition with high morbidity and mortality. The causative agent is the oomycete microorganism Pythium insidiosum. The pathogen inhabits ubiquitously in a wet environment, and direct exposure to the pathogen initiates the
Maria Nina Chitasombat +3 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. 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.
Rivierre, Chantal +5 more
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, 2019 Pythiosis is a granulomatous disease that affects subcutaneous, vascular, ocular, and gastrointestinal tissues of many humans and animals. The disease is caused by the fungus-like pathogen Pythium insidiosum, an oomycete found predominantly in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Pythiosis in animals (horses and dogs) has been more prevalent in
de Moraes Gimenes Bosco, Sandra +3 more
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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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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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