Pathogenesis of chytridiomycosis, a cause of catastrophic amphibian declines

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5952, 2009, Pages 582-585

  Voyles, Jamie ^a   Young, Sam ^a   Berger, Lee ^a   Campbell, Craig ^b   Voyles, Wyatt F ^c   Dinudom, Anuwat ^b   Cook, David ^b   Webb, Rebecca ^a   Alford, Ross A ^a   Skerratt, Lee F ^a   Speare, Rick ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

DISEASE INCIDENCE; FROG; FUNGAL DISEASE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION DECLINE; SKIN DISORDER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROLYTE TRANSPORT; EPIDERMIS; FROG; FUNGUS; HEART ARREST; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; LITORIA CAERULEA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISEASE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SUPPLEMENTATION; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DERMATOMYCOSES; ELECTROLYTES; EPIDERMIS; HEART; HEART ARREST; HOMEOSTASIS; ION TRANSPORT; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; SODIUM CHANNELS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; HYLIDAE; LITORIA CAERULEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70350514906     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1176765     Document Type: Article

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