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Is Chytridiomycosis an Emerging Infectious Disease in Asia?
Recommended Citation:
Vredenburg, V. 2016 "Is Chytridiomycosis an Emerging Infectious Disease in Asia?" AmphibiaWeb: Amphibian Disease Portal.
Data Last Modified: Wed Feb 19 2020
Project Description
Abstract Excerpt: To date, Bd surveys have been published for few Asian countries, and infected amphibians have been reported only from Indonesia, South Korea, China and Japan. Thus far, there have been no substantiated reports of enigmatic or suspected disease-caused population declines of the kind that has been attributed to Bd in other areas. In order to gain a more detailed picture of the distribution of Bd in Asia, we undertook a widespread, opportunistic survey of over 3,000 amphibians for Bd throughout Asia and adjoining Papua New Guinea. Survey sites spanned 15 countries, approximately 36° latitude, 111° longitude, and over 2000 m in elevation. Bd prevalence was very low throughout our survey area (2.35% overall) and infected animals were not clumped as would be expected in epizootic events. This suggests that Bd is either newly emerging in Asia, endemic at low prevalence, or that some other ecological factor is preventing Bd from fully invading Asian amphibians. The current observed pattern in Asia differs from that in many other parts of the world. Swei A, Rowley JJL, Roedder D, Diesmos MLL, Diesmos AC, Briggs CJ, et al. (2011) Is Chytridiomycosis an Emerging Infectious Disease in Asia? PLoS ONE 6(8): e23179
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Project PI: Vance Vredenburg
Project Contact: Vance Vredenburg
Dataset DOI: https://n2t.net/ark:/21547/AWL2
Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023179
Project Data - Public
Events: 434 || Samples Collected: 1980
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