Parallels in amphibian and bat declines from pathogenic fungi

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 379-385

  Eskew, Evan A ^a   Todd, Brian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BAT; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOMYCES DESTRUCTANS; HIBERNATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; WHITE NOSE SYNDROME;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AMPHIBIANS; ASCOMYCOTA; BATS; BIODIVERSITY; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOSTS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAK; INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESERVOIRS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INNATE IMMUNITY; PATHOGENICITY FACTORS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MYCOSES;

EID: 84874237113     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1903.120707     Document Type: Article

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