Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection and Lethal Chytridiomycosis in Caecilian Amphibians (Gymnophiona)

EcoHealth

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 173-183

  Gower, David J ^a   Doherty Bone, Thomas ^a   Loader, Simon P ^b   Wilkinson, Mark ^a   Kouete, Marcel T ^c   Tapley, Benjamin ^e   Orton, Frances ^d   Daniel, Olivia Z ^f   Wynne, Felicity ^d,g   Flach, Edmund ^e   Müller, Hendrik ^h   Menegon, Michele ⁱ   Stephen, Ian ^e   Browne, Robert K ^j   Fisher, Mathew C ^f   Cunningham, Andrew A ^d   Garner, Trenton W J ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Project Cameroon Herpetology Conservation Biology Foundation   (Cameroon)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^h FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

ⁱ MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI   (Italy)

^j CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

Africa; Anura; Batrachia; Caudata; chytrid; pet trade; South America

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANURA; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AMERICA; WILD ANIMAL;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANURA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; MYCOSES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AMERICA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BATRACHIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CAECILIA; CAUDATA; FUNGI; GEOTRYPETES SERAPHINI; GYMNOPHIONA;

EID: 84879463206     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-013-0831-9     Document Type: Article

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