Survey for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in Latvian Water Frogs
Alena A Kulikova1, Aija Pupina2, Mihails Pupins2
1Department of Monitoring and Cadaster of Wild Animals, The State Scientific and Production Amalgamation, Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Biological Resources, Akademicheskaya 27, 220072, Minsk, Belarus.
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
|March 7, 2022
Abstract:
We used quantitative PCR to detect Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) in 135 samples of Pelophylax esculentus complex water frogs from 41 Latvian populations. We detected Bd in 18 populations of water frogs. None of the samples was positive for Bsal.


