Inhibition of local immune responses by the frog-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4698-4706

  Scott Fites, J ^a,c   Reinert, Laura K ^b   Chappell, Timothy M ^a   Rollins Smith, Louise A ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FUNGUS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE INHIBITION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; SPLEEN CELL; SUPERNATANT; SWELLING; THICKNESS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ANIMAL; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DERMATOMYCOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VETERINARY;

PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DERMATOMYCOSES; FEMALE; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84907960581     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.02231-14     Document Type: Article

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