Experimental infection of native north Carolina salamanders with batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 631-636

  Chinnadurai, Sathya K ^a   Cooper, David ^b,c   Dombrowski, Daniel S ^b   Poore, Matthew F ^a   Levy, Michael G ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Soil and Environmental Consultants PA   (United States)

Author keywords

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytrid; Desmognathus orestes; Infection; Plethodon glutinosus; Salamander

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; DESMOGNATHUS; DESMOGNATHUS OCHROPHAEUS; DESMOGNATHUS ORESTES; PLETHODON; PLETHODON GLUTINOSUS; PLETHODONTIDAE; RANA CLAMITANS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FROG; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DERMATOMYCOSES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; NORTH CAROLINA; RANIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URODELA;

EID: 70349324285     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-45.3.631     Document Type: Article

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