Pythium insidiosum is an aquatic oomycete responsible for pythiosis, a disease affecting humans and a variety of animals. This pathogen, although fungus‐like in its presentation, exhibits distinct ...

MELBOURNE – Darwin has been, and is being, evolved. For the past five months, Efram Goldberg brought Darwin, his white German shepherd puppy, for daily dips into a campus pond at Florida Institute of ...

Clinical Infectious Diseases publishes clinically relevant articles on the pathogenesis, clinical investigation, medical microbiology, diagnosis, immune mechanisms, and treatment of diseases caused by ...

Pythium insidiosum, an aquatic oomycete, causes chronic lesions in the skin and digestive tract of multiple species. A captive-bred Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) showed clinical signs of ...

A Chincoteague pony has been diagnosed with the potentially deadly disease known as "swamp cancer." The foal is among the famed wild horses living at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on the ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - It’s called Pythiosis. It’s a rare fungal infection caused by the aquatic mold Pythium Insidiosum. It can affect the skin or gastrointestinal tract of dogs, causing sores ...