Developing a safe antifungal treatment protocol to eliminate Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis from amphibians

Medical Mycology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-149

  Martel, A ^a   Van Rooij, P ^a   Vercauteren, G ^a   Baert, K ^a   Van Waeyenberghe, L ^a   Debacker, P ^a   Garner, T W J ^b   Woeltjes, T ^c   Ducatelle, R ^a   Haesebrouck, F ^a   Pasmans, F ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

amphibian; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; treatment; voriconazole

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; VORICONAZOLE;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIBIAN DISEASE; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; GROWTH INHIBITION; IN VITRO STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; ZOOSPORE;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANURA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOSES; PYRIMIDINES; TRIAZOLES;

ALYTES CISTERNASII; ALYTES MULETENSIS; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; DENDROBATIDAE;

EID: 78751522567     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2010.508185     Document Type: Article

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