Host Stress Response Is Important for the Pathogenesis of the Deadly Amphibian Disease, Chytridiomycosis, in Litoria caerulea

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Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Peterson, John D ^a,b   Steffen, John E ^c   Reinert, Laura K ^d   Cobine, Paul A ^a   Appel, Arthur ^a   Rollins Smith, Louise ^d   Mendonça, Mary T ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENERGY BALANCE; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FOOD INTAKE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LITORIA; LITORIA CAERULEA; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; RESTING METABOLIC RATE; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BASAL METABOLISM; BODY WEIGHT; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CORTICOSTERONE; EATING; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MYCOSES; SKIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; HYLIDAE; LITORIA CAERULEA;

EID: 84876450100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062146     Document Type: Article

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