Stability of microbiota facilitated by host immune regulation: Informing probiotic strategies to manage amphibian disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Küng, Denise ^a   Bigler, Laurent ^a   Davis, Leyla R ^a   Gratwicke, Brian ^b   Griffith, Edgardo ^c   Woodhams, Douglas C ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center   (Panama)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

AMPHIBIAN DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANURA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; COLOSTETHUS PANAMANSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ESPADARANA PROSOBLEPON; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; LYSINIBACILLUS; LYSINIBACILLUS FUSIFORMIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SKIN FLORA;

AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; BACILLUS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DERMATOMYCOSES; DISEASE RESISTANCE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICROBIOTA; PROBIOTICS; SKIN; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84899745731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087101     Document Type: Article

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