Immmunological clearance of batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection at a pathogen-optimal temperature in the hylid frog Hypsiboas crepitans

EcoHealth

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 380-388

  Marquez M ^a   Nava Gonzalez F ^a   Sanchez D ^a   Calcagno, M ^b   Lampo, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

amphibians; chytrid fungus; chytridiomycosis; diseases; experimental infections; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; HYLIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FROGS AND TOADS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; TEMPERATURE; TIME; VENEZUELA;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; MYCOSES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; VENEZUELA;

EID: 80051591363     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-010-0350-x     Document Type: Article

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