Parasite competition hidden by correlated coinfection: Using surveys and experiments to understand parasite interactions

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 535-541

  Johnson, Pieter T J ^a   Buller, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Amphibian malformations; Coinfection; Concomitant infection; Disease ecology; Infectious disease; Polyparasitism

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLATWORM; HETEROGENEITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFECTIVITY; MORTALITY; PARASITISM; PATHOGEN; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DECLINE; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FROGS AND TOADS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TREMATODE; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CALIFORNIA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; TREMATODA; WETLANDS;

AMPHIBIA; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMA TRIVOLVIS; RIBEIROIA; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 79955533445     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0570.1     Document Type: Article

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