Pathological changes in African hyperoliid frogs due to a myxosporidian infection with a new species of Hoferellus (Myxozoa)

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 215-222

  Mutschmann, F ^a  

^a Exomed Inst Vet Med Lower V   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibia; FKED; Frog; Frog kidney enlargement disease; Hoferellus anurae sp. n.; Myxosporidia; Myxozoa

Indexed keywords

FROG; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PARASITIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; GHANA; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

AFRIXALUS; AFRIXALUS DORSALIS; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HOFERELLUS; HOFERELLUS ANURAE; HYPEROLIUS; HYPEROLIUS CONCOLOR; MYXOSPOREA; MYXOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 9944222567     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao060215     Document Type: Article

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