Defects in host immune function in tree frogs with Chronic Chytridiomycosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Young, Sam ^a,b   Whitehorn, Paul ^b   Berger, Lee ^a   Skerratt, Lee F ^a   Speare, Rick ^a   Garland, Stephen ^a   Webb, Rebecca ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Mogo Zoo   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PLASMA PROTEIN; AMPHIBIAN PROTEIN; GLOBULIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANURA; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE; HOST RESISTANCE; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE; LITORIA CAERULEA; LITORIA INFRAFRENATA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN CLEARANCE; SPLEEN LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; VETERINARY;

AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANURA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; GLOBULINS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MYCOSES;

EID: 84944909783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107284     Document Type: Article

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