Black yeast-like fungi associated with Lethargic Crab Disease (LCD) in the mangrove-land crab, Ucides cordatus (Ocypodidae)

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 158, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 109-122

  Vicente, Vania A ^a,b   Orelis Ribeiro R ^b   Najafzadeh, M J ^a,c   Sun, Jiufeng ^d   Guerra, Raquel Schier ^b   Miesch, Stephanie ^a   Ostrensky, Antonio ^b   Meis, Jacques F ^e   Klaassen, Corné H ^e   de Hoog, G S ^a,f,g,h   Boeger, Walter A ^b  

^a CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^h SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Exophiala cancerae; Fonsecaea brasiliensis; Lethargic Crab Disease (LCD); Mangrove crab; Ucides cordatus; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLADOPHIALOPHORA ARXII; CLADOPHIALOPHORA AUSTRALIENSIS; CLADOPHIALOPHORA BANTIANA; CLADOPHIALOPHORA DEVRIESII; CLADOPHIALOPHORA EMMONSII; CLADOPHIALOPHORA IMMUNDA; CLADOPHIALOPHORA MINOURAE; CLADOPHIALOPHORA SATURNICA; CLADOSPORIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA CANCERAE; FONSECAEA; FONSECAEA BRASILIENSIS; FONSECAEA MONOPHORA; FONSECAEA MULTIMORPHOSA; FONSECAEA NUBICA; FONSECAEA PEDROSOI; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; LETHARGIC CRAB DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UCIDES CORDATUS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BRACHYURA; BRAZIL; EXOPHIALA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY;

BRACHYURA; CHAETOTHYRIALES; CLADOPHIALOPHORA DEVRIESII; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EXOPHIALA; FONSECAEA; FUNGI; GECARCINIDAE; HERPOTRICHIELLACEAE; OCYPODIDAE; SCYLLA; UCIDES CORDATUS;

EID: 84862783469     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2012.01.031     Document Type: Article

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