Emerging pathogen of wild amphibians in frogs (Rana catesbeiana) farmed for international trade

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 995-998

  Mazzoni, Rolando ^a   Cunningham, Andrew A ^b   Daszak, Peter ^c   Apolo, Ada ^a   Perdomo, Eugenio ^a   Speranza, Gustavo ^a  

^a Inst de Investigaciones Pesqueras   (Uruguay)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Consortium for Conservation Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CATERING SERVICE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUTANEOUS CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; FROG; FUNGUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; SKIN INFECTION; SOUTH AMERICA; WILD TYPE; WILDLIFE;

EID: 0042125417     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0908.030030     Document Type: Article

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