Epidermal epidemic: unravelling the pathogenesis of chytridiomycosis
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DOI: 10.1242/jeb.191817
Abstract: ABSTRACT Chytridiomycosis, a lethal fungal skin disease of amphibians, fatally disrupts ionic and osmotic homeostasis. Infected amphibians increase their skin shedding rate (sloughing) to slow pathogen growth, but the sloughing process also increases skin permeability.… read more here.
Keywords: skin permeability; chytridiomycosis; epidermal epidemic; skin ... See more keywords