Experimental infection of self-cured Leiopelma archeyi with the amphibian chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 92, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 159-163

  Shaw, Stephanie D ^a   Bishop, Phillip J ^b   Berger, Lee ^a   Skerratt, Lee Francis ^a   Garland, Stephen ^a   Gleeson, Dianne M ^c   Haigh, Amanda ^d   Herbert, Sarah ^b   Speare, Rick ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytridiomycosis; Leiopelma archeyi; Litoria ewingii

Indexed keywords

DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FROG; FUNGUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTIVITY; POPULATION DECLINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; FROG; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; MYCOSES; RANIDAE;

NEW ZEALAND;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; LEIOPELMA ARCHEYI; LITORIA EWINGII;

EID: 78650447623     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02227     Document Type: Article

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