"Pythium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of destructive root-parasitic OOMYCETES in the family Pythiaceae, order Peronosporales, commonly found in cultivated soils all over the world. Differentiation of zoospores takes place in a vesicle.
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D011775
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.750.937.750
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| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pythium" by people in Profiles.
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Pythium Keratitis Leading to Fatal Cavernous Sinus Thrombophlebitis. Cornea. 2018 Apr; 37(4):519-522.
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Differential diagnosis for pythiosis using thermophilic helicase DNA amplification and restriction fragment length polymorphism (tHDA-RFLP). Med Mycol. 2018 Feb 01; 56(2):216-224.