A review of mucormycosis in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Australian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 235-244

  Connolly, Joanne H ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; MONOTREME; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

ANURA; BUFO MARINUS; FUNGI; HYLIDAE; MUCOR; MUCOR AMPHIBIORUM; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS;

EID: 71049144762     PISSN: 0004959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ZO09043     Document Type: Review

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