Bacterial flora on Cascades frogs in the Klamath mountains of California

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 591-598

  Roth, Tara ^a   Foley, Janet ^a   Worth, Joy ^a   Piovia Scott, Jonah ^a   Pope, Karen ^b   Lawler, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Redwood Sciences Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Biofilm; Chytrid; Frog; Innate immunity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANURA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PREDICTION; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BATRACHOCHYTRIUM; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; NEGIBACTERIA; RANA CASCADAE;

BACTERIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BIOFILM; CHYTRID; FROG; INNATE IMMUNITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CALIFORNIA; MICROBIOTA; RANIDAE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SKIN;

EID: 84886384855     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: 18781667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2013.07.002     Document Type: Article

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