Thursday 24 March 2016

The salamander-killing fungus is more widely distributed than previously known

A new paper in Emerging Infectious Diseases shows that the salamander-killing chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans occurs in the Netherlands (the index site where the first outbreak was observed), Belgium and also in Germany. In the wild, it infects Salamandra salamandra, Ichthyosaura alpestris and Lissotriton vulgaris.

Read the full paper here:
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/7/16-0109_article
PDF:
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/22/7/pdfs/16-0109.pdf

For more information on the fungus: http://www.salamanderfungus.org/

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