title: "Ranaviruses: an emerging threat to ectothermic vertebrates" report of the First International Symposium on Ranaviruses, Minneapolis MN July 8, 2011.
abstract: This is a report of the First International Symposium on Ranaviruses held on July 8, 2011 in conjunction with the annual Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (JMIH) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The emerging threat of ranavirus infectious diseases to the global biodiversity of ectothermic vertebrates was addressed by 23 scientists from nine countries with expertise in ecology, pathology, virology, veterinary medicine and immunology.
authors: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY 14642, USA. jacques_robert@urmc.rochester.edu
authors: Jacques
authors: J
authors: Robert
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Gregory Chinchar
mesh_terms: D000663:Amphibians; D000818:Animals; D004266:DNA Virus Infections / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D017753:Ecosystem; D005399:Fishes; D017995:Ranavirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012104:Reptiles