Waterfowl: Potential environmental reservoirs of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Garmyn, An ^a   van Rooij, Pascale ^a   Pasmans, Frank ^a   Hellebuyck, Tom ^a   van den Broeck, Wim ^a   Haesebrouck, Freddy ^a   Martel, An ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BELGIUM; BIRD; CELL ADHESION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMOTAXIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GOOSE; IN VITRO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCALE; TOE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMPHIBIA; ANATIDAE; ANSER; AVES; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI;

ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; GEESE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84859724484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035038     Document Type: Article

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