Diagnosis of Aeromonas hydrophila, Mycobacterium species, and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in an African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis)

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 215-220

  Hill, William A ^a,b   Newman, Shelley J ^a   Craig, Linden ^a   Carter, Christopher ^b   Czarra, Jane ^b   Brown, J Paige ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILE; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; FIBRINOUS COELOMITIS; FORELIMB; FROG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INCIDENTAL FINDING; IRIDOVIRUS; LABORATORY; LIP; LIVER; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEMATODIASIS; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SKIN ULCER; SPLEEN DISEASE; THORAX; UNITED STATES; WILD TYPE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOSES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CONTRACAECUM; MYCOBACTERIUM; RANAVIRUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 77950597654     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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