Changes in cutaneous microbial abundance with sloughing: Possible implications for infection and disease in amphibians

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 235-242

  Meyer, Edward A ^a   Cramp, Rebecca L ^a   Bernal, Manuel Hernando ^a,b   Franklin, Craig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL TOLIMA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Commensal microbe; Cutaneous; Epidermis; Pathogen; Rhinella marina; Shedding; Skin; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACCLIMATION; AMPHIBIAN; BACTERIAL DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EMERGENCE; EPIDEMIC; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PERIODICITY; PHOTOPERIOD; SKIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BUFO MARINUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLTING; MYCOSIS; PERIODICITY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SKIN; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BUFO MARINUS; MOLTING; MYCOSES; PERIODICITY; PHOTOPERIOD; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SKIN; TEMPERATURE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BUFO MARINUS; FUNGI;

EID: 84869774828     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02523     Document Type: Article

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