The pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis disturbs the frog skin microbiome during a natural epidemic and experimental infection

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 47, 2014, Pages E5049-E5058

  Jani, Andrea J ^a   Briggs, Cheryl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytridiomycosis; Disease ecology; Dysbiosis; Microbiome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; RANA; SKIN; ANIMAL; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MYCOSES; PATHOGENICITY; RANIDAE;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI;

ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; MICROBIOTA; MYCOSES; RANIDAE; SKIN;

EID: 84912572054     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412752111     Document Type: Article

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