Experimental infection of snakes with ophidiomyces ophiodiicola causes pathological changes that typify snake fungal disease

mBio

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Lorch, Jeffrey M ^a   Lankton, Julia ^a   Werner, Katrien ^a   Falendysz, Elizabeth A ^a   McCurley, Kevin ^b   Blehert, David S ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b New England Reptile Distributors   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORN SNAKE; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLTING; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; OPHIDIOMYCES OPHIODIICOLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; SNAKE; SNAKE FUNGAL DISEASE; WILD SPECIES; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; ONYGENALES; PATHOLOGY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; DERMATOMYCOSES; ONYGENALES; SNAKES;

EID: 84952803150     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01534-15     Document Type: Article

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