Using stochastic epidemiological models to evaluate conservation strategies for endangered amphibians

Amphibian Symbiotic Bacteria Do Not Show a Universal Ability To Inhibit Growth of the Global Panzootic Lineage of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2015) Rachael E. Antwis et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Successful elimination of a lethal wildlife infectious disease in nature

(2015) Jaime Bosch et al.   Biology Letters

Itraconazole treatment reduces Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis prevalence and increases overwinter field survival in juvenile Cascades frogs

(2015) BM Hardy et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Context-dependent conservation responses to emerging wildlife diseases

(2015) Kate E Langwig et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Models for managing wildlife disease

(2015) HAMISH McCALLUM   PARASITOLOGY

Averting a North American biodiversity crisis

(2015) T. A. Yap et al.   SCIENCE

Widespread presence of the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in wild amphibian communities in Madagascar

(2015) Molly C. Bletz et al.   Scientific Reports

Interventions for Reducing Extinction Risk in Chytridiomycosis-Threatened Amphibians

(2014) BEN C. SCHEELE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Microscopic Aquatic Predators Strongly Affect Infection Dynamics of a Globally Emerged Pathogen

(2014) Dirk S. Schmeller et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Skin sloughing rate increases with chytrid fungus infection load in a susceptible amphibian

(2014) Michel E.B. Ohmer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders

(2014) A. Martel et al.   SCIENCE

Mitigating amphibian chytridiomycosis with bioaugmentation: characteristics of effective probiotics and strategies for their selection and use

(2013) Molly C. Bletz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans sp. nov. causes lethal chytridiomycosis in amphibians

(2013) A. Martel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Daphniapredation on the amphibian chytrid fungus and its impacts on disease risk in tadpoles

(2013) Catherine L. Searle et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Inference of R0 and Transmission Heterogeneity from the Size Distribution of Stuttering Chains

(2013) Seth Blumberg et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Controlling wildlife fungal disease spread: in vitro efficacy of disinfectants against Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Mucor amphibiorum

(2012) R Webb et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Clinical trials with itraconazole as a treatment for chytrid fungal infections in amphibians

(2012) LA Brannelly et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Treatment of chytridiomycosis with reduced-dose itraconazole

(2012) MEB Jones et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

CHLORAMPHENICOL WITH FLUID AND ELECTROLYTE THERAPY CURES TERMINALLY ILL GREEN TREE FROGS (LITORIA CAERULEA) WITH CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS

(2012) Sam Young et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE MEDICINE

Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health

(2012) Matthew C. Fisher et al.   NATURE

Pathophysiology in Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs (Rana muscosa) during a Chytridiomycosis Outbreak

(2012) Jamie Voyles et al.   PLoS One

Sodium Chloride Inhibits the Growth and Infective Capacity of the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus and Increases Host Survival Rates

(2012) Michelle Pirrie Stockwell et al.   PLoS One

Waterfowl: Potential Environmental Reservoirs of the Chytrid Fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2012) An Garmyn et al.   PLoS One

Germ Tube Mediated Invasion of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Amphibian Skin Is Host Dependent

(2012) Pascale Van Rooij et al.   PLoS One

Unlikely Remedy: Fungicide Clears Infection from Pathogenic Fungus in Larval Southern Leopard Frogs (Lithobates sphenocephalus)

(2012) Shane M. Hanlon et al.   PLoS One

Chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has nonamphibian hosts and releases chemicals that cause pathology in the absence of infection

(2012) T. A. McMahon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temperature alters reproductive life history patterns in Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a lethal pathogen associated with the global loss of amphibians

(2012) Jamie Voyles et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Predation by zooplankton on Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: biological control of the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus?

(2011) Julia C. Buck et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Disease dynamics vary spatially and temporally in a North American amphibian

(2011) Anna E. Savage et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Management of Yellowstone bison and brucellosis transmission risk – Implications for conservation and restoration

(2011) P.J. White et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Reptiles as potential vectors and hosts of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Panama

(2011) VL Kilburn et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Elevated temperature as a treatment for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in captive frogs

(2011) MWH Chatfield et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Treatment of amphibians infected with chytrid fungus: learning from failed trials with itraconazole, antimicrobial peptides, bacteria, and heat therapy

(2011) DC Woodhams et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Mitigating amphibian disease: strategies to maintain wild populations and control chytridiomycosis

(2011) Douglas C Woodhams et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Can Infect and Cause Mortality in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

(2011) E. J. Shapard et al.   MYCOPATHOLOGIA

Seasonal Pattern of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection and Mortality in Lithobates areolatus: Affirmation of Vredenburg's “10,000 Zoospore Rule”

(2011) Vanessa C. Kinney et al.   PLoS One

Nothing a Hot Bath Won't Cure: Infection Rates of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus Correlate Negatively with Water Temperature under Natural Field Settings

(2011) Matthew J. Forrest et al.   PLoS One

Short-Term Exposure to Warm Microhabitats Could Explain Amphibian Persistence with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2011) Joshua H. Daskin et al.   PLoS One

Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity

(2011) Jonathan M. Chase et al.   Ecosphere

Management of the Panzootic White-Nose Syndrome through Culling of Bats

(2010) THOMAS G. HALLAM et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Evaluation of Selective Culling of Infected Individuals to Control Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease

(2010) SHELLY LACHISH et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Treatment of chytridiomycosis requires urgent clinical trials

(2010) L Berger et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Immune Defenses against Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a Fungus Linked to Global Amphibian Declines, in the South African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis

(2010) J. P. Ramsey et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Developing a safe antifungal treatment protocol to eliminateBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisfrom amphibians

(2010) A. Martel et al.   MEDICAL MYCOLOGY

Cutaneous Bacteria of the Redback Salamander Prevent Morbidity Associated with a Lethal Disease

(2010) Matthew H. Becker et al.   PLoS One

Enzootic and epizootic dynamics of the chytrid fungal pathogen of amphibians

(2010) C. J. Briggs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamics of an emerging disease drive large-scale amphibian population extinctions

(2010) V. T. Vredenburg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Skin microbes on frogs prevent morbidity and mortality caused by a lethal skin fungus

(2009) Reid N Harris et al.   ISME Journal

Pathogenesis of Chytridiomycosis, a Cause of Catastrophic Amphibian Declines

(2009) J. Voyles et al.   SCIENCE

The ecology and impact of chytridiomycosis: an emerging disease of amphibians

(2009) A. Marm Kilpatrick et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Using itraconazole to clear Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection, and subsequent depigmentation of Alytes muletensis tadpoles

(2008) TWJ Garner et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Chytridiomycosis and Amphibian Population Declines Continue to Spread Eastward in Panama

(2008) Douglas C. Woodhams et al.   EcoHealth

Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians

(2008) D. B. Wake et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Riding the Wave: Reconciling the Roles of Disease and Climate Change in Amphibian Declines

(2008) Karen R Lips et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY