Chaffin M K, Schumacher J, McMullan W C
Department of Large Animal Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.
Vet Clin North Am Equine Pract. 1995 Apr;11(1):91-103. doi: 10.1016/s0749-0739(17)30334-6.
Pythiosis of horses in an invasive, ulcerative, proliferative, pyogranulomatous disease of the skin and subcutis caused by Pythium insidiosum, a fungus-like oomycete in the order Peronosporales of the kingdom Protista. Pythiosis is a form of "phycomycosis," which is a complex of pyogranulomatous diseases that also includes conidiobolomysosis, basidiobolobysosis, and disorders caused by members of the order Mucorales.
马的腐皮病是一种由隐匿腐霉引起的皮肤和皮下组织的侵袭性、溃疡性、增殖性、脓性肉芽肿性疾病,隐匿腐霉是原生生物界霜霉目一种类似真菌的卵菌。腐皮病是“藻菌病”的一种形式,藻菌病是一组脓性肉芽肿性疾病,还包括耳霉病、蛙粪霉病以及由毛霉目成员引起的疾病。