lobomycosis

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lobomycosis

a skin disease of dolphins caused by the yeast loboa loboi and manifested by dermal granulomas or keloids, especially around the head. The disease is a debilitating one and may kill the dolphin.

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Loboa loboi			We report 2 cases of lobomycosis in offshore (pelagic) bottlenose dolphins stranded off North Carolina in 2005 and 2008. Lobomycosis in offshore bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), ... by Rotstein, David S.; Burdett, Leslie G.; McLellan, William; Schwacke, Lori; Rowles, Teri; Terio, Kare / Emerging Infectious Diseases To the Editor: Lobomycosis is a chronic dermal infectious disease affecting humans and some species of dolphins but not, to date, freshwater dolphins. Lobomycosis in inshore and estuarine dolphins by Paniz-Mondolfi, Alberto Enrique; Sander-Hoffmann, Lilian / Emerging Infectious Diseases Along the same evolutionary lines, the presence of lobomycosis in these dolphins poses the likelihood that the agent of the disease has found ways to infect a broader array of the species than we know in the same ecologic community. When you were a tadpole and I was a fish by Potter, Polyxeni / Emerging Infectious Diseases			loading dose loading response stance stage loads loaiasis loaned servant doctrine lobar lobar bronchus lobar buds Lobar hemorrhage lobar intracerebral hemorrhage lobar nephronia lobar pneumonia lobate lobation lobbying lobe lobe of ear lobe- lobectomy lobelia Lobelia inflata lobeline lobitis loblolly pine Loboa loboi lobomycosis lobopodium lobotomy Lobstein's disease lobster Lobster Claw Deformity lobster-claw deformity lobucavir lobular lobular carcinoma lobular carcinoma in situ lobular glomerulonephritis lobulate lobulated lobulation lobule lobule of epididymis Lobules lobulus lobus lobus azygos LOC loc- local local adaptation syndrome local analgesia			LOBNAH LOBNH Lobnia Lobnoe Mesto Lobnor Lobnor Lobnoye Mesto Lobnya lobo lobo lobo Lobo De Crin Lobo De Crin Lobo guara Lobo guara Lobo's disease Lobo-guará Lobo-guará Loboa loboi Loboc Loboda, Grigorii Loboda, Petr Loboda, Petr Grigorevich Lobodon Lobodon carcinophaga Lobodon carcinophagus lobola lobola Lobolo Lobolo lobomycosis Lobopodia Lobopodia lobopodial lobopodium lobopodium lobos lobos Lobosa Lobosia Lobotes Lobotes Lobotes pacificus Lobotes surinamensis Lobotid Lobotid Lobotidae Lobotidae lobotomies lobotomies lobotomies lobotomisation lobotomise lobotomised lobotomises lobotomising lobotomization lobotomize lobotomized lobotomized lobotomized

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