OVERVIEW
Pneumocystis carinii—saprophyte of the mammalian respiratory tract is whose life cycle completed in the alveolar spaces; classified as an atypical fungal organism based on analysis of nucleic acids
Infections—dogs, clinical; cats, subclinical; usually confined to the respiratory tract; a reported case of disseminated disease in a dog
Transmission—infected to susceptible animal within a species; strain differences may account for the lack of interspecies transmission.
No comments:
Post a Comment