Immunization is ineffective at preventing infection and mortality due to the amphibian chytrid fungus batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-77

  Stice, Mary J ^a   Briggs, Cheryl J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytridiomycosis; Immunization; Rana muscosa

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; RANA MUSCOSA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FROG; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; IMMUNIZATION; LARVA; MYCOSES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANIDAE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77449117773     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-46.1.70     Document Type: Article

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