Marked swelling with coalescing ecchymoses of the lower mandible in a Xenopus laevis frog

Lab Animal

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 19-22

  Cannon, Coralie Zegre ^a   Linder, Keith ^a   Brizuela, Brenda J ^a   Harvey, Stephen B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECCHYMOSIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MANDIBLE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH ULCER; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; PATHOLOGY; PURPURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ECCHYMOSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; MANDIBLE; MOUTH MUCOSA; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; ORAL ULCER; PURPURA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 33745591700     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0506-19     Document Type: Article

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