Quitridiomicosis en anfibiosinmunidad, tratamiento y mitigación en el medio natural

Abstract

Chytridiomycosis, a fungal driven disease, has become the emerging infectious disease responsible for the greatest loss of biodiversity attributable to a disease in recorded history. It has already affected more than 1000 amphibian species and played a key role in the decline of at least 500 of those species, leading amphibians into becoming the most threatened vertebrate Class of our planet.This disease, which affects the amphibian skin mainly of Anuran species, is originated by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (here in after, Bd). Until now Bd was the only example of a chytrid infecting vertebrates. Recently though, a new chytrid fungus species has been described, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (here in after, Bsal), which also has this vertebrate infective capacity, mainly of Urodela species such as salamanders...