Tag: Bd

Treating frogs in one of their most vulnerable moments may help them survive the onslaught of a deadly fungal disease. Cascades frogs are one of many species whose populations have...

A deadly chytrid disease has been found for the first time in two California salamander species. The fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis or Bd, was found to cause widespread disease in arboreal...

Even after frogs clear the infection caused by chytrid fungus, their microbiomes don’t recover, which could have implications for managing the disease. Microbiomes include all of the bacteria, fungi and...

Some North American salamander species may have special skin proteins that help them resist otherwise deadly fungal diseases. “Salamanders who are able to limit infections of Bsal or Bd in...

People usually think of immune responses as helping bodies recover from diseases. But recent research showed the opposite for at least one frog species facing a deadly amphibian fungus. Lowland...

The fungal pathogen behind the extinction of entire species of South American amphibians has been detected for the first time in endangered frogs and toads in India. In a study...

Some Central American frog species appear to be recovering from 40-year declines caused largely by fungal disease, according to new research. The reason, the research suggests, is better skin defenses...

Researchers have documented another frog species that carries the deadly chytrid fungal disease but shows no symptoms, and they believe others may exist around the world, contributing to global amphibian...

It’s easy to see that frogs are in trouble when their breeding ponds are littered with carcasses. But even in places with no visible die-offs, the fungal disease that is...

Young citizen scientists aged 4 to 16 have discovered that many frogs and toads on California’s northern coast are infected with the deadly chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). Seventeen percent of...