Mitigating amphibian disease: strategies to maintain wild populations and control chytridiomycosis
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- 1 January 2011
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Frontiers in Zoology
- Vol. 8 (1), 8
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-8-8
Abstract
Rescuing amphibian diversity is an achievable conservation challenge. Disease mitigation is one essential component of population management. Here we assess existing disease mitigation strategies, some in early experimental stages, which focus on the globally emerging chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. We discuss the precedent for each strategy in systems ranging from agriculture to human medicine, and the outlook for each strategy in terms of research needs and long-term potential.This publication has 183 references indexed in Scilit:
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