Fungal infection intensity and zoospore output of Atelopus zeteki, a potential acute chytrid supershedder

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  DiRenzo, Graziella V ^a   Langhammer, Penny F ^b   Zamudio, Kelly R ^c   Lips, Karen R ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATELOPUS ZETEKI; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; SKIN INFECTION; TIME OF DEATH; ZOOSPORE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUFONIDAE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FUNGUS SPORE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BUFONIDAE; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MYCOSES; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 84899828223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093356     Document Type: Article

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