Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in the recently rediscovered Atelopus mucubajiensis (Anura, Bufonidae), a critically endangered frog from the Venezuelan Andes

EcoHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 299-302

  Lampo, Margarita ^a   Barrio Amorós, Cesar ^b   Han, Barbara ^c  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b Fundacion AndigenA   (Venezuela)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS INFECTION; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPIDEMIC; FROGS AND TOADS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION RATE; MYCOSIS; NEAR EXTINCT SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TISSUE SECTION;

ANURA; ATELOPUS; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BUFONIDAE; LYSAPSUS;

EID: 33847182432     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-006-0068-y     Document Type: Article

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