Ranavirosis in invasive bullfrogs, Belgium

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2371-

  Sharifian Fard, Mojdeh ^a   Pasmans, Frank ^a   Adriaensen, Connie ^a   Devisscher, Sander ^b   Adriaens, Tim ^b   Louette, Gerald ^b   Martel, An ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN;

BELGIUM; BULLFROG; CHYTRIDOMYCOSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; IRIDOVIRUS; LETTER; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RANAVIROSIS; RESERVOIR; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84930484981     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1712.110236     Document Type: Letter

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