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Magnitude of the US trade in amphibians and presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and ranavirus infection in imported North American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana)

  • Lisa M. Schloegel
  • , Angela M. Picco
  • , A. Marm Kilpatrick
  • , Angela J. Davies
  • , Alex D. Hyatt
  • , Peter Daszak

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1420-1426
JournalBiological Conservation
Volume142
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2009
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Note: This study was funded by The New York Community Trust, The Eppley Foundation, the National Science Foundation (IRCEB Grant DEB-02133851; NSF/NIH Ecology of Infectious Diseases Grant EF-0622391) and core funding to the Consortium for Conservation Medicine from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation.

Keywords

  • chytridiomycosis
  • batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
  • wildlife trade
  • amphibian declines
  • ranavirus
  • time taqman pcr
  • population declines
  • emerging pathogen
  • chytrid fungus
  • frogs
  • disease
  • extinctions
  • prevalence
  • widespread
  • Biological sciences

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