Volume 11, Number 3, March 2005

Pythiosis in Africa

Christine Rivierre,* Caroline Laprie,† Olivier Guiard-Marigny*, Patrick Bergeaud,* Madeleine Berthelemy‡, and Jacques Guillot‡
*Clinique Vétérinaire de la Plage, Marseille, France; †Vet-Histo, Diagnostic Histopathologique Vétérinaire, Marseille, France; and ‡Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort, Maisons-Alfort, France

Figure 1. Unique cutaneous lesion on the right side of the hip in an 8 month-old German Shepherd. The lesion had appeared 4 months before this image was taken and had rapidly evolved into a large ulcer with draining tracts.

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