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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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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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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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Successful management of colonic pythiosis in two dogs in Thailand using antifungal therapy
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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Simplified Point-of-Care Testing for Human Pythiosis: Development of a Whole-Blood-Based Lateral Flow Immunoassay [PDF]
DiagnosticsBackground/Objectives: Human pythiosis, caused by Pythium insidiosum, is associated with severe morbidity and high mortality when diagnosis is delayed. Culture-based diagnosis is time-consuming and may be insensitive in clinical specimens, highlighting ...
Jidapa Szekely +7 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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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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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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A Review: Antimicrobial Therapy for Human Pythiosis
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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, 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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