Whether the weather drives patterns of endemic amphibian chytridiomycosis: a pathogen proliferation approach.

The pandemic amphibian disease chytridiomycosis often exhibits strong seasonality in both prevalence and disease-associated mortality once it becomes endemic. One hypothesis that could explain this temporal pattern is that simple weather-driven pathogen proliferation (population growth) is a major d...

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Main Authors: Kris A Murray, Lee F Skerratt, Stephen Garland, Darren Kriticos, Hamish McCallum
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3629077?pdf=render