Parasite age-intensity relationships in red-spotted newts: Does immune memory influence salamander disease dynamics?

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 231-241

  Raffel, Thomas R ^a   LeGros, Robert P ^b   Love, Brenda C ^c   Rohr, Jason R ^a   Hudson, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthocephalan; Amphibiocapillaria; Clinostomum; Ichthyophonus; Nematode; Plagitura; Trematode; Trypanosome

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NEMATODE; PARASITE; PARASITIC DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY;

AGE DETERMINATION; AMPHIBIOCYSTIDIUM VIRIDESCENS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; NEWT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOSIS; SALAMANDER;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; HELMINTHS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; MESOMYCETOZOEA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; TRYPANOSOMA;

AMPHIBIOCAPILLARIA; AMPHIBIOCYSTIDIUM; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLINOSTOMUM; ICHTHYOPHONUS; NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS; PLAGITURA; PROTISTA; SALAMANDRIDAE; SALAMANDROIDEA; TETRAPODA; TREMATODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 57449084947     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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