Spatial Assessment of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in South Africa Confirms Endemic and Widespread Infection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Tarrant, Jeanne ^a   Cilliers, Dirk ^a   du Preez, Louis H ^a   Weldon, Ché ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANURA; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMORPHIC FUNGAL INFECTION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION RISK; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN SWAB; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WILD SPECIES;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; ENDEMIC DISEASES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYCOSES; PREVALENCE; RISK; SOUTH AFRICA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880647317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069591     Document Type: Article

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